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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

It’s in your mind One of the pioneers of adult learning theory, Malcom Knowles , explored the role of adult education and facilitation (andragogy) versus the traditional style of teaching children (pedagogy). Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Telling Stories

Upside Learning

The use of narrative form stretches back into time as a powerful tool for pedagogy, and we now know it works well into adulthood. Humans telling stories embed information in them, and when someone listens to stories, the brain searches for a deeper meaning beyond what the words are saying. the ability to tell stories.

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The role of the university?

Clark Quinn

Now, I talked some time ago about my ongoing search for wisdom , and the notion of a wise curriculum coupled with a wise pedagogy very much permeate my thinking. It would necessitate a change in pedagogy as well. Some thoughts recently coalesced that I thought I’d put out and see what reaction I get.

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Constructive vs instructive

Clark Quinn

Obviously, I think that pure exploration is doomed to failure, as we know that learners can stay in one small corner of a search space without support (hence the coaching in Quest ). I’m pushing a very activity-based pedagogy (and curriculum). Another factor is our target learners.

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The 3 mindsets of m-learning

E-Learning Provocateur

Instead of pushing out yet another course, I’m more inclined to host content on a mobile-friendly platform like an intranet or a wiki that the learner can access, browse and search via their device of choice – including a smartphone. For that, we need a third mindset… Mindset #3 – Experience.

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What is wrong with (higher) education?

Clark Quinn

The ‘developing you as an individual’ is really building your more general skills: communicating, working with others, a positive attitude, knowing how to search, etc. The other problem is the pedagogy. The Predictive Analytics work that Ellen Wagner did is the type of opportunity we have here.

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TCC09: Wikis that Work: Effective Wiki Practices for Virtual Learning Communities

Experiencing eLearning

Personality Pedagogy. Search and Seize assignments: What is this? If you use third party, your internal tech support can’t help. Backups–hosted elsewhere. Instructional and extracurricular wikis. Library Science course on Retrieving Information. On the slide but not explained yet.

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