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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with 'e's

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners.

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4 Keys to Student Success Online: Part 3

The Electric Educator

Note: While research regarding best practices for online learning is difficult to obtain due to the relative infancy of the industry, four key areas of focus critical to program success have been identified. This week I will be posting four keys to student success in online courses. 2006): 425-448. online learning'

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with 'e's

This belief was also the basis for the in Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. 2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants On the Horizon , 9 (5). 1996) Playing the Future: What we can learn from digital kids.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with 'e's

It prompted much debate and led to a number of publications which presented my thinking to a wider audience (Wheeler, 2000b; 2001). Across Europe and other western industrialised nations, most universities now have their own corporate e-learning strategies, and most manage their own virtual learning environments or VLEs (McConnell, 2006).

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with 'e's

This belief was also the basis for the Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. 2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants On the Horizon , 9 (5). 1996) Playing the Future: What we can learn from digital kids. Oblinger, D.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

This has implications for agency and ownership as knowledge that is created by and for the organization may be perceived as being owned by the organization (Ende & Lungsford, 2001). Through group filtering and curating, documents become a record of the group’s content knowledge or shared cognition (Cannon-Bower & Salas, 2001).

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Special Webinar - Live from the Middle East: Classroom Connections Amidst Political Changes

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Through these years, online collaboration has played a key role in shaping her perception of the use of ICT in educational programs and in enabling students to learn from and with their peers worldwide how we all are citizens of this planet. She has completed a BA in economics and a MS in online learning and teaching.