Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2013

Do we need them to describe and frame what is currently happening in an age where everyone is as connected as they wish to be, where social media are the new meeting places, and where mobile telephones are pervading every aspect of our lives. Is it now time for these new theories to replace the old ones? I will be interested in your views.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. A key attraction of these technologies is that they are inherently participatory.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

O''Reilly Media. Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. Photo by Felix Burton on Wikimedia Commons The survival of higher education (2): Changing times by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 O''Reilly, T.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Consumers of Web based content tend to search randomly and nomadically, due to the multi-layered, multi-directional nature of hyperlinked media and this aligns neatly with some post modern theory. Postmodernist views of society can be appropriated as lenses to analyse the personalised use of digital technology. London: Continuum.

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