Learning with 'e's

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 are the challenges of these new learning environments?

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Flipped Classroom MOOC Smartphone Learning 28

Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and personal response technologies; students arrive equipped with social media and mobile devices; technology supported distance education has been long established; universities are experimenting with flipped classrooms, gaming and MOOCs.

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Elsevier Learning Conference Social Media 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The themes are: Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities; Emphasis on Mobile; Content Management and Technical Infrastructure; and Rethinking the Roles and Relationships of Librarians. Finally, another science teacher will briefly share exercises in engineering design. Details to join the webinar at [link].

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Libraries Maker Movement Conference Learning 52

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The “ Drawing Exercise ” activity is from Green River Community College. Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. Find several syllabus infographics for various subjects here. Gamify your syllabus!

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Digital Badges MOOC Exercises Digital Learning 326

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Karen Cameron shares this 8 step exercise to teach students (and teachers) how to actively listen to their peers. shares the guidelines, rules, and reflective activities associated with this exercise. Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Learn more here. Thanks, Ted!

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Libraries Google Common Core Conference 51

MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

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Course MOOC Digital Divide Online Learning 28

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

This took 20 slides , touching on two-tier pedagogy, the rise of adjunctification, student poverty, etc: To drive the point home I offered a very slight, very basic futures exercise. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs.

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Education MOOC Social Media Exercises 40