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APRIL 27, 2020

Photo source: Pexels Social distancing. Schools all over the world have remained open (even though they are officially 'closed'), to provide care and support for the children of essential workers, and also to continue to offer students everywhere remote learning opportunities. Stay at home. And what about resilience? Unported License.

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MARCH 9, 2014

Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. But that is the problem. Are your staff on board with this idea? Leave the store.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. Christian identifies three key changes in pedagogy that I want to discuss over my next three blog posts. Christian identifies three key changes in pedagogy that I want to discuss over my next three blog posts.

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JULY 12, 2017

Photo from LSE Library on Flickr Most of the students starting university at the end of summer 2017 were born around the turn of the century. It's safe to claim that much of higher education is firmly rooted in the past , reflecting colonial history, traditional values and 20th (or even 19th) Century pedagogies. Unported License.

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MARCH 9, 2013

After seemingly stalling for a short time, MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) seem to be graining ground again. First there were the cMOOCs, free and open online courses that focused more on learning than they did on accreditation. Photo by Steve Wheeler Who's afraid of the big bad MOOC? Everything is on Google.

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JULY 29, 2019

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. I haven't given up on peer reviewed publishing, but I have turned away from closed journals and publications toward openness and accessibility. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

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JULY 8, 2016

Our opening keynote Helen Beetham talked about digital capabilities, which is becoming a well trodden phrase in higher education. The technology should be there to be used as an additional, enhanced aspect of learning, not as a substitute for good pedagogy. the design features) militate against flexibility. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I'm always up for a challenge, and I am always open to learning new things. Photo by Ron Wise on Wikimedia Commons Learning is in the struggle by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 If so, how can we realise it?

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MARCH 16, 2015

In a few days I''ll post my interview with Jim Groom, but first, here''s the conversation that ensued when I caught up with The British Open University''s Martin Weller. 1) You’re currently professor of educational technology at the British Open University. And we''ve seen a lot of innovation in the area of open education.

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APRIL 18, 2014

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. The plants were those teachers who are open to new ideas, and the rocks are those who resist, Stephen explained. the teacher). Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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MARCH 17, 2015

It was a great pleasure to speak at the opening plenary session of INTED 2015 in Madrid earlier this month. I believe that this will become an important gulf to bridge in the coming years, as new learners enter the gates of universities and demand more in terms of technologies, new pedagogies and support. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The latter is more complex and less predictable, but essentially enables them - through the sharing of their work on a publicly open platform - to engage with others who are beyond the walls of the classroom. The former is self explanatory, allowing students to crystallise their thinking and articulate themselves in a concrete form.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

In this photo I'm with Jay Cross and Graham Attwell, at a conference in Salzburg, Austria. I made my mind up around about this time that I needed to do a lot more research into this emerging field of openness, and decided that social media were the ideal tools to promote this concept. I hope that continues for a long time.

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JUNE 13, 2013

During the plenary opening session we heard from several frank young students about their experiences at school. Photo by Steve Wheeler NB: This post is mirrored on the official EDEN Conference Blog The kids are all right by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Some raised the issue of lurking and peripheral participation, but the point was also made that wherever there are open and free events, we will find those who lurk in the background. The final question asked whether new learning environments such as MOOCs, flipped classes and blended learning represented a new or emerging pedagogy.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

New trends have emerged including blended learning , personalised learning environments ( PLEs ) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), mobile learning and the flipped classroom. What do new learning environments promise in terms of new learning, new pedagogy and new opportunities? And what new skills and knowledge do educators need?

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

It was a great pleasure to give the opening keynote at the Social Science special interest group Higher Education Academy conference yesterday in Manchester. You can look up the Twitter hashtag for the two day event which is #HEASocSci15. The audience were a group of academics from across the UK and Ireland who specialise in social sciences.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But if you don't read the entire story and simply take in the headline and opening salvo, or fail to get to heart of the OECD report, you won't see the full picture. What the report is actually saying is that technology is no substitute for good pedagogy. All teachers would agree with this. Again, there is no argument with this.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But if you don't read the entire story and simply take in the headline and opening salvo, or fail to get to heart of the OECD report, you won't see the full picture. What the report is actually saying is that technology is no substitute for good pedagogy. All teachers would agree with this. Again, there is no argument with this.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I have gone on record as saying that although I don't need to work any more , I continue to work at Plymouth University, mainly because it is a great place to learn and to continue developing my research interests around digital pedagogy. I will hopefully continue to work in higher education for as long as I'm interested. Unported License.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

It rides on the back of the willingness of some maverick teachers to practise new forms of pedagogy where learning takes precedence over teaching, and where being a content expert is less important than being a co-learner with one''s students. ''I Another important component of the new ecology is the choice of progressive pedagogy.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Photo by Steve Wheeler There is a large, flexible learning space in Ormiston Junior College on the outskirts of Auckland. Open, modern learning spaces are dynamic and student centred, and they offer great opportunities for creative learning. It's called a modern learning environment or MLE. Unported License.

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JUNE 6, 2014

The ethos of heutagogy extends to learner choice, where students can create their own programmes of study, a feature often seen in the loosely aggregated and unstructured aspects of some Massive Open Online Courses. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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MAY 9, 2016

I'm not opposed to assessment - it's a vital part of pedagogy, because we need to know how our students are doing, but more importantly, students need to know their own progress, and what to do to improve. Photo by Jim Champion on Wikimedia Commons Tested to breaking point? I would get rid of it. Unported License.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Our curricula and schemes of work are so crammed full of content there sometimes seems little room for movement, no flexibility or scope for creativity. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Learning by design? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

We were very proud then, when the envelope was opened, to hear our names being read out as the winners. Here is an excerpt from the website nomination, with endorsements from a former student and a current student: This team has been developing a collaborative, open and meaningful social media presence in e-learning and primary pedagogy.

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APRIL 30, 2017

In Filling empty vessels Keith reflects on the work of Comenius and Freire and asks how we can move away from stuffing facts into children's heads, to a place where we open up their understanding to the world around them. Keith argues for authentic forms of learning throughout his blog. Great stuff. Unported License. Unported License.

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APRIL 28, 2012

Here is my interpretation of some of his ideas, drawn from his most celebrated book 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', and presented in six key points as they might apply to the art of educational blogging. Blogs are public facing tools that enable their owners to externalise their thinking in a way that is open for scrutiny.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Sadly, due to increasing competition from other cross-channel services and the opening of the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar train services, the cross channel service between Dover and Calais closed in 2000. I vividly remember the iconic white plastic air intake, and for me, the design ideas embodied by the hovercraft symbolised the future.

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MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). We also wanted to find an open access publisher. What are your views on MOOCs?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2013

The event attracts learning technologists, lecturers, researchers, teachers, learning professionals, health and medical staff, private trainers, and just about anyone who is interested in the very latest in digital pedagogies, literacies and technologies. The price for the evening isn't bad either - at only £40.00 Unported License.

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APRIL 18, 2014

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. The plants were those teachers who are open to new ideas, and the rocks are those who resist, Stephen explained. the teacher). Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JUNE 11, 2015

Tracing the history of online open learning, Groom talked about MOOCs emerging in 2008, which were about syndication, open networks, and about self organising communities building new practice for the web. Over 500 people's blogs were aggregated onto the central ds106 website, and the creativity was supported further.

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JULY 16, 2015

Many of them are free and easy to use, and there is a definite pedagogy underpinning the use of these technologies. You see, all of my content is licensed under Creative Commons, which means that it can be shared and repurposed under the same licence with which I have licensed it. Unported License.

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JUNE 10, 2015

Her involvement in the Hack Education movement derives from her dissatisfaction with current school regimes and her outspoken criticism of traditional education practices has led to her championing alternative education movements such as the flipped classroom, MOOCs and open courseware - and the use of digital learning technologies.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The Open University was one of the first education institutions to exploit the power of TV, starting in the early 1970s with its late night broadcasts on the BBC. Perhaps the pedagogy for educational TV had yet to be developed. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The Open University was one of the first education institutions to exploit the power of TV, starting in the early 1970s with its late night broadcasts on the BBC. Perhaps the pedagogy for educational TV had yet to be developed. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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