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That is why we want to share how Burst - a Shopify value-add feature can improve your online store, website, blog or Social Media post. BURST is a stock photo platform with high-quality images that are available free of charge under the Creative Commons Zero license. What is Burst?

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MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: JISC I first started studying and then practicing distance education in the 80s. Social media and smart phones were still a few years away, so we made do with what was available. Back then we contended with slow modem speeds (remember them?), Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Publicdomainpictures Ever wondered how we can overcome feelings of loneliness and disconnect in distance education? It's a common psychological phenomenon to feel that although you are separated by distance, the technology actually mediates your connection with someone else. Wheeler, S. ALT-J , 15(2), 103-117.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. Distance Education social media relationships MOOCs Twitter FaceBook'

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That''s quite an apt result because Google and many of the other large, supposedly ''free'' social media tools are very much focused on making money to sustain their operations. Nor is it about the morality of social media companies. Photo by Steve Wheeler PLN or CoP? But this post is not about money.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Secondly, learning needs to be social. Increasingly, such contact and communication is mediated through technology, and social media tools are ideal for this purpose. His Zone of Proximal Development theory has been central to our understanding of how we learn in social contexts. Thirdly, learning needs to be globalised.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Photo from Pixabay Or in other words. Newspapers and media channels in particular revel in pushing sensationalist headlines that attract people who seem to be starved of sensory input. That's my response to a lot of news headlines these days. A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. In this presentation I will explore the use of MOOCs, AI, social media, smart mobiles, virtual worlds, augmented and virtual reality, as well as some of the emerging associated theories, to evaluate their effectiveness on pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 25, 2014

There always seems to be a discussion about questions around identity on popular social media channels. Guido Gautsch , a teacher in Melbourne agreed, but argued that it was probably not possible to separate them on open social media platforms such as Twitter. What are your views? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler (Duck by Denise Hudson ) If I didn't know any better I would believe in synchronicity. We all did our best, and our creations were then shared with each other on social media. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2013

One of the most persuasive affordances of social media is that it encourages users to generate their own content. Teachers who recognise this and see the potential of social media to promote active learning are in for an exciting time. Teachers know that active forms of learning are better than passive forms.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Humans were once untethered, free to wander the world and explore at will. The multi-timbral nature of the smartphone gives it the capacity to capture our attention through a wide spectrum of attractions, from music and digital media, games, social media, dating sites, videos and live news streams.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2014

It has become a convenient excuse for many, who then feel free to dismiss their own involvement in the use of new media, whilst simultaneously overestimating the abilities of their students. They may not be such regular users of Facebook , so are more likely to be visitors rather than residents within that particular social media environment.

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JUNE 22, 2019

As with any other social media platform, there are useful devices such as trending search notifications, API/developer sections and licensing advice, and there are special zones where you can find wallpaper or slide background images. I hope you will find it as useful as I have. Thank you Marci for this great tip! Making a splash!

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

In a recently published article, my colleagues Maged Boulos, Dean Giustini and I write about how learning through social media is transforming medical practices, health care and education. Here's an excerpt from the article, published in the open access journal Future Internet. The full text is available at this link. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

Shirky also underlines the importance of one specific aspect of the internet - social media tools - as ''amplifiers'' of ideas and collective actions. We know instinctively and empirically that people learn best when they are in rich social contexts. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 26, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons During the life of the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCon), we tried to be innovative, introducing new features each of the ten years the event ran. One of the most innovative (and perhaps controversial) was the inclusion of a confessional booth during the final PELeCon. Reference Gerver, R.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

These connections exist not only in links between 'friends', but also in fan page membership, tags, 'likes' and comments, image uploads (at least 250 million photos each day), hyperlinks and a whole host of other digital artefacts created by people simply linking into content and interacting with it. And that's just Facebook.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 8, 2013

Should we use centralised services and endure all the constraints that accompany them, or should we instead use our own patchwork collection of tools, loosely aggregated social media and handheld personal devices that give us freedom, but at a price? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

This means that texting too, has become normal practice, as has our use of touch screens, social media and search engines. Photo by Stephen Janofsky Global conversations by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 A lot has changed in less than two decades.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2011

But we all have access to the power of social media, and with appropriate use, and with enough of us involved, we are all watchers - and we can all make a difference. Reading a blog post by Jonathan MacDonald today got me thinking about the vast, untapped potential of the social web to inform, challenge, educate and motivate.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

In this photo I'm with Jay Cross and Graham Attwell, at a conference in Salzburg, Austria. I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. I hope that continues for a long time.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 19, 2014

In 1962, in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy , media theorist Marshall McLuhan popularised the term ''Global Village'' as a description of global contraction through proliferation of electronic technology. Photo from Wikimedia Commons It takes a village by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

Some people display framed certificates on their walls, or photos of their degree ceremony. Many keep libraries of books, journals and other media on their shelves, used for reference to remind them of theories, principles or methods they wish to recall. How do you represent your learning? How do you represent your learning?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

He had done work on the use of social media. Photos by Dermot Donnelly-Hermosillo Chance encounters by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 He told me he studied chemistry education with an emphasis in learning technology.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

We discussed the evolution of social media in higher education and also how institutional virtual learning environments (learning management systems) are being developed to cope with new demands of new learners. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Posted on the BERA blog , Peter Ford made the argument that unless academics and educationalists engage with classroom teachers on social media, they are in danger of being consigned to the periphery. The blogs themselves would be the room and the audience would be those who were connected through social media.

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Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2018

Photo by Tup Wanders on Flickr In my previous post , I reflected on 18 years of keynote speaking in academic conferences. 11) In relation to 10), your last slide can contain your own contact details such as email address, social media accounts, website URL, and even your phone number if you feel brave enough!

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APRIL 5, 2015

The arrival of Creative Commons licensing made free sharing a more attractive proposition for everyone. As van Dijk (2013) has proposed, the ready acceptance of Facebook and other social media into the every day lives of a global population of users ensured that the ethos of sharing became second nature. van Dijk, J.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The capabilities of social media to give students their own publishing or broadcasting platform has prompted an exponential rise in user generated content. Photo by Jim Cianca on Wikimedia Commons The height of SAMR by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2013

I first read it whilst a new academic and still finding my way, and I read it in a time that pre-dated what we now know as social media. Mobile (cellular) phones were just beginning to make their impact on society, and were starting to penetrate sufficiently into the public consciousness to provide the media with occasional stories.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

This may be one explanation why people appear to be less guarded on social media, and feel free to say things they would never dream of saying in a real-life public space. Photo by Tim Green The drama of Facebook by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 19, 2014

So what of our habitual use of digital media? What are the effects of our fearsome fascination with mobile phones, our predilection to video games, our inexorable gravitation toward social media? Do these constitute a digital habitus? Does our digital presence accurately represent any aspect of the self? Unported License.

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