Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2019

Photo by Marshall Henrie on Wikimedia Commons My keynote speech at the nextEd2019 conference in Lisbon was titled 'Personalising learning in the digital age'. During the plenary session I was asked by a delegate to explain the difference between 'personal learning' and 'personalised learning'. Unported License.

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CourseArc

APRIL 5, 2017

If you have designed and administered successful in-person, Instructor-Led Training (ILT) modules, you may want to convert those classes into online courses to reach a wider audience. Effectively transferring your in-person courses to an online format requires a deliberate strategy, planning, and execution. Think About Inventory.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 11, 2017

Your online training content must speak to your employees on a personal level, as well as give them the online training resources they require to overcome daily challenges. For instance, written permission from the original creator or a link that leads to the Creative Commons agreement.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

From the term web-log, a personal or business website used to publish content regularly as informal journal style entries. Creative Commons Licence. Self-initiated training that focuses on personal development throughout your life. Podcasts are generally part of a series from a person or based on a topic.

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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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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2020

Crossing the divide: Transliteracy Digital literacies in the age of remix Digital readiness The digital literacies course is available for free on the new ZilLearn platform at this link and follows on from the first module I published last week on personal learning environments. Unported License.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2016

CogDogBlog is about educational technology, social media, Creative Commons, and a number of other topics that author Alan Levine finds interesting. Cormier is the person (with George Siemens) who coined the term MOOC and has been involved in MOOCs literally since their very beginning in 2008.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In the context of this post, PLN stands for Personal Learning Network , and CoP stands for Communities of Practice. PLNs have been described as informal networks of people one specifically interacts with within their personal learning environments. Conversely, in your PLN, you are at the centre of the group from the outset.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2014

In its place, you’ll have access to a Bing image search, which will be filtered by Creative Commons licensing. Creative Commons Beware. I like that the Bing search feature will default to a Creative Commons filter. Not sure if you saw the news, but Microsoft is going to dump clip art.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

There is a particular joy in this kind of learning, because it relies on personal enthusiasm rather than the achievement of some particular standardised benchmark. Students no longer passively absorb content, because they own personal digital devices, and they can use these to produce, organise, repurpose and share their own content.

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Learning with e's

JULY 27, 2012

Children (and adults too) can learn more broadly, deeply and extensively if they have a knowledgeable person by their side, than they can on their own. In our society, we often think of that knowledgeable other person as a professional educator, a tutor, lecturer or classroom teacher. But it need not be. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Now it depends on how you define CPD, but for me it is the personal learning you require to sustain, enhance and extend your own capabilities within your professional practice. My Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the vehicle that carries me to this learning, and social media is the highway that enables me to get there.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

One of the most valuable assets a 21st Century learner has is their personal learning network (PLN). Learning can be contextualised in so many different ways, and this is why personal learning tools are so important. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2014

And yet according to on very respected psychologist - Lev Vygotsky - learning on your own is not as powerful or extensive as learning alongside a ''knowledgeable other'' person. According to his Zone of Proximal Development theory (ZPD), whether that person be a teacher, peer or parent, children learn more extensively within a social context.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 22, 2014

I asked the students to tell me what they thought they could personally do to influence how universities work. Learners promoting change by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Below is the third short video that features in my BETT Show Higher Education Summit presentation.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 28, 2014

His mention of the Substrate-Autonomous Person got me thinking about what possible applications should could have for education in the future. This is what futurist and transhumanist Natasha Vita-More describes as the "Substrate-Autonomous Person." This person would form identities," she told me. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2013

More significantly, in psychological terms, we are developing our personal digital presences, and modifying our digital profiles. Presentation of self in digital life from Steve Wheeler Digital me, digital you 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 13, 2014

I speak in particular about my own personal pedagogical approach and how my own teaching and learning methods have been developed and influenced over the last few years in a technological rich environment. Here is the link to the interview which lasts approximately 30 minutes. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 25, 2015

My argument in my presentation was that social learning, the use of mobile devices, and personal learning environments will all be vitally important components of any future learning ecology. education future learning mobile personal Personal Learning Environment Saudi Arabia school social teaching Technology' Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

That gives them personal ownership of their learning. They place their own individual stamp on the content they create, and then share it within their personal learning environment and across their peer network. Thirdly, content can become more engaging because students invest their own time, energy and vision into creating it.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Is the personal device of use for searching and curating new ideas and knowledge? Photo by Lupuca on Flickr Integrating technology into learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 How can presentations be enhanced through the use of big screen technology?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 26, 2013

Alternatively they can celebrate that learners are adept enough at using their personal technologies to make learning easier and more productive for themselves. Personal technologies are proliferating and they are multi-functional. They can support the idea on the basis that most learners will use that content later for reflection.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Personally, I don''t find it that onerous. My mind technology is embodied in and across a vast biological network of individuals - the connected minds that I call my personal learning network (PLN). They are numerous, and I know many of them personally. Others are familiar to me from repeated online contact. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In a recent post entitled A Quiet Invasion , I proposed that users of mobile devices are breaking the mould of traditional learning formats, bypassing and short-cutting conventional modes of learning, and maximising the affordances of their personal devices to support their learning. Sure, there can be frivolous use of mobile devices.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2014

It was great to answer, because I have tracked the learning technology trends over the last decade, and have come to the conclusion that mobile (smart) phones and social media, in combination, have provided the world with the most dynamic, social and personal connections we could possibly wish for. Unported License.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While many organizations are re-establishing their in-person set-ups, they are also contending with a push to keep activities online. Many professionals who are seeking certifications will opt for the online experience over in-person because of its flexibility. Flexible Education Options for Learners of All Ages.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 These posts were prompted by a blog written by Daniel Christian on emerging trends of new pedagogy. The times are changing, and so should our methods of pedagogy. Photo by Steve Wheeler A growing divide? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies. Moreover, there is a sense that personal technologies encourage learners to be self-determined in their approach to education.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 20, 2013

My personal view is that the time is now ripe for the widespread and rapid adoption of wearable computing. We are already comfortable wearing such enhancements on our person - wrist watches inform us of the passage of time, and spectacles enhance our vision when it deteriorates. I think not. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2013

In previous posts I have argued that personal, handheld technologies such as smart phones, e-readers, tablet computers and games consoles enable mobile learning at the pace of the individual, in any place and at any time. These are initial thoughts and I value your comments in shaping them into something less nascent. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Here ther are with my own annotations included: 1 - It is personal and facilitates the student voice. The current generation self discloses a great deal more than those in previous generations, and can be brutally honest in telling of their personal stories. 2 - It is a natural part of the confessional culture. Photo by Petar Miloševi?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Each has skills, abilities, knowledge, hopes, aspirations and individual personalities that can be nurtured, allowed to blossom, encouraged. Whether children learn for themselves, or are instructed, depends on each teacher''s personal philosophy on education. Every child has something unique to offer. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 17, 2013

Here are my 8 essential tools: 1) Twitter, because as I recently said in a YouTube video , it is immediate, social and personal. It connects me to my personal learning network (PLN) and is simple to use. YouTube is so simple to use, and so versatile and becomes a personal television broadcast channel for many. 2) My laptops.

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Learning with e's

MAY 10, 2014

This is the start of enquiry based learning, and for some will develop into a lifelong interest in personal research. Kate Friedwald , a teacher in Christchurch, New Zealand believes in this, suggesting an approach that answers questions with more questions, finding out for themselves, and exploring. Secondly, make lessons fun.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 26, 2017

Perceivable : The information must be able to be seen by a person with visual impairments (through a screen reader, screen magnifier, or other assistive technology), or heard by a person who is hard of hearing or deaf (through captions, written transcript, etc.).

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2014

Embedding the problem into a larger project where they need to rely on each other (collaborative), and their resources (content) and their own intuition and personal qualities (creativity) to achieve their goals. Giving students a problem to solve is one thing. They won''t learn if they are not curious. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 25, 2014

Are you the same person online as you are in real life? Can you separate your professional identity from your personal identity? The concept of identity (personal and professional) is a complex one. Firstly, I asked if professional identity can be separated from personal identity. What are your views? Unported License.

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