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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

That never worked in the student bar and it won''t work on Facebook. Student groups tend to set up their own Facebook groups anyway, without any prompting from their teachers. Student groups tend to set up their own Facebook groups anyway, without any prompting from their teachers.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

However, as we become increasingly connected to each other through technology, and our social ties strengthen, so there is greater scope for students to learn together, sharing their resources and ideas, and approaching their study collaboratively. Collaborative learning does not undermine or contradict personalised learning.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

This is particularly evident on a cursory inspection of any social web space, whether it be Facebook, Snapchat or any other popular free space. If they wished to change this kind of restrictive provision and depose the ‘tyranny of the institutional VLE’, universities would need to undergo a radical shift in policy. Unported License.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. To become a platform is to be “the next Facebook” or “the next Google” (and as such, to be a windfall for investors).

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