Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Writing a good abstract - a brief summary, precis or synopsis that appears at the front of an article - is important. The same applies with journal articles - most publishers, particularly those who put up paywalls, will often allow you a free look at just the journal abstracts. Get it wrong, and you may lose your audience.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The academic world doesn't tend to value blogging as much as it does formally peer-reviewed publications. I have written about this previously, but need to re-emphasise the true value of blogging. Here are four reasons why the academic community should revise its collective opinion about blogging.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Many have some great ideas to share, and we encourage student blogging very strongly in Plymouth. There is nothing to stop students going farther and publishing their work in mainstream journals - if their work is good enough it should be shared widely. Some of my previous students have published in journals in the past few years.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2011

We were talking about our common interest in the educational benefits of blogging, and I made a suggestion that digital identity was a significant factor in the way teachers and other professionals use it (I will blog on this idea in a future post). I expanded by talking about my own use of blogging.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In my presentation, entitled The Good, the Blog and the Wiki, I tried to paint some broad brushstrokes on how students (and their teachers) are creating and sharing content that supports their learning, both socially and academically, through a range of social media. Now, you can take this blog post one of two ways. Sinful, I ask you.

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Mindflash

APRIL 12, 2012

In a piece outlining the findings in Gallup Management Journal , Aniruddh Haralalka and Leong Chee Tung summarize the results: “Not everyone can excel at a particular task, regardless of training and effort. London-based Jessica Stillman blogs about generational issues and trends in the workforce for Inc.com , GigaOM and Brazen Careerist.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In several previous posts on this blog I have extolled the virtues of open content, and have called for traditional journals to go open access. Image source by Stephanie Pouyllau Pigs are flying by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

They were writing up their project in their online journals when I spoke to them, reflecting on what they had learnt about ratios, distances and dimensions. They were also busy writing up their experiences and what they had learnt, to share with their teachers, friends and parents. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. References Gunawardena, C.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2007

Through blogging and access to this wonderful community beyond the walls of my office, Ive started to get passionate again about my work. I started a private Live Journal , but Ive only written there a few times. I blog , therefore I am. I blog at work, I blog at home. Implicit lessons in how to write good.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67. Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0:

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. The web is constantly changing.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In yesterday's post I gave the first part of a review of the latest issue of the journal Interactive Learning Environments , which is a special issue entitled: 'Towards eLearning 2.0 I promised I would continue the review today, right here on this blog, so here goes. University'. Unported License. Interactive Learning Environments.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 13, 2020

It has been quite a long time since my last blog post (more than 6 weeks!). There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important one is that I have been spending my time writing. I'm used to writing academic content, papers, conference papers, keynote speeches, chapter for books, peer reviewed journal articles.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Through OER, students can increase their critical thinking and writing skills due to OER’s capacity to be modified, expanded and remixed. Students and educators depend on access to scholarly journals, which in turn, develops a more robust knowledge and education, and spurs innovation, advancement, and growth in our societies.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2012

The conference was enhanced by the presence of several very tech savvy young students from primary schools, who took a full part in the proceedings, tweeting and live blogging from the event on their mobile devices. What both projects have in common is their capitalisation on the 'hidden audience' effect. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

Her prolific presence in the educator community through social media has been recognized by several notable entities, such as The New York Times , UNESCO Bangkok, Edweek, Converge Magazine, the United Federation of Teachers, the 140 Conference, Mashable, English Central, Tefl.net, and T/H/E JOURNAL. What links would you like to share?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995. Yeomans, P.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2011

Of course, what I write on my blog is not institutionally checked, which is different to a publication in a scientific journal which may go through two blind peer reviews. But in fact my readership reviews and comments on what I write, and this in a way is more valuable to me than a formal review. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Later, as an education academic I collaborated with several medical scientists to write position papers in a range of technology applications in bioscience and medicine. Exploring medical technologies 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

AUGUST 30, 2010

Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish).

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Learning with e's

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. As this blog approaches 8.5 I haven't given up on peer reviewed publishing, but I have turned away from closed journals and publications toward openness and accessibility.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2011

Applying Goffman's theory to the performance spaces of social media, we could cast a spotlight on videosharing services such as Youtube and text based performace spaces such as traditional blogs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 21 (3), 381-8. Is it the pleasant experience of having a large appreciative audience?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

As a prelude to the event, the organisers have asked me to write a short blog post which takes the form of my responses to four questions: Q1. The big four show no signs of relenting in their profiteering, so several years ago I took a very public decision to resign as editor of a major academic journal. I'm not the only one.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

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. Many of us had great fun last summer exchanging images as we challenged each other to blog about learning using pictorial metaphors. The iterative power of this is infinite.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2015

Increasing numbers of high profile academics (such as danah boyd and Martin Weller for example) are turning their backs on traditional methods of research dissemination, publishing their work exclusively on free-to-read open access platforms or on their blogs. Many have openly pledged to never write, edit or review for closed journals again.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 31, 2008

Mallette.and anybody else directly involved with the choice to publish the journal " Educational Researcher " through SAGE. Why not license this work under Creative Commons ? Why not follow the model of the Public Library of Science Journals ? Or Open Access Journals ? Elmore, Gregory Camilli, Anthony J.

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Mark Oehlert

JANUARY 11, 2008

A post on Danah Boyd s blog Zephoria , pointed out the fact that the John D. " How about "If you write an article and only the people who review it for publication read it, does it make any difference?" typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 19, 2015

Of course, what I write on my blog is not formally checked, a departure from publications in scientific journal which will normally be subject to two or more peer reviews. But in fact my readership reviews and comments on my writing, and for me, this is more valuable to me than a formal peer review. Unported License.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Home Speaker Contact internet time alliance Learnstream Resources Internet Time Blog from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Dust-up at Training Zone by Jay Cross on November 26, 2008 Some readers of an interview with me that appeared in today’s issue of Training Zone has generated a dozen critical comments and even some name-calling.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Home Speaker Contact internet time alliance Learnstream Resources Internet Time Blog from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Dust-up at Training Zone by Jay Cross on November 26, 2008 Some readers of an interview with me that appeared in today’s issue of Training Zone has generated a dozen critical comments and even some name-calling.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Home Speaker Contact internet time alliance Learnstream Resources Internet Time Blog from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Dust-up at Training Zone by Jay Cross on November 26, 2008 Some readers of an interview with me that appeared in today’s issue of Training Zone has generated a dozen critical comments and even some name-calling.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Home Speaker Contact internet time alliance Learnstream Resources Internet Time Blog from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Dust-up at Training Zone by Jay Cross on November 26, 2008 Some readers of an interview with me that appeared in today’s issue of Training Zone has generated a dozen critical comments and even some name-calling.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2012

Blogging and open access journals are becoming the first choice of publishing for many academics and scholars. Many are turning away from the closed journals regardless of the status they currently enjoy, because open access journals and blogs gain a larger audience for their writing, and publishing is quicker.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2017

It's creative and it's often thought provoking. Amy Burvall and I did this a while back, when we invited people to write some thoughts on learning around an image. I did something similar when I speculated on how Paulo Friere might view blogging. You can have a lot of fun with this approach to personalised learning.

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