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Learning pathways

Learning with 'e's

How often do we impose pathways upon students which do not meet their needs, or fit their expectations? The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways.

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Food for thought

Learning with 'e's

I'm meeting lots of folk today and doing a number of interviews, while trying to fit in as many of the paper and panel sessions as possible without keeling over. The second session was an interesting rehash of the infamous VLE is Dead symposium we conducted a couple of years ago at ALT-C 2009 in Manchester. Unported License.

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

Learning with 'e's

Some did not have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with their peer group and sometimes suffered from prolonged lack of tutor contact. Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

If you don''t have the space or time for face-to-face meetings, what can you do? 3) Your Managed Learning Environment (or VLE) - in whatever flavour your organisation has chosen - is a walled garden that allows conversations to be protected from outside eyes. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

In education, the common objective is usually to learn specific content, skills or competencies within defined areas. Ostensibly, learning is an individual goal, and each student does tend to learn in their own way, using their own favoured approaches and tools. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ).

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Why do so many Moodle courses suck?

Nik Peachey

Moodle is a magnificent free product and has the potential to enable schools and teachers to build wonderfully unique interactive online learning courses in which learner interaction can be tracked, measured and responded to. Given the state of many of these courses, it’s no wonder that drop out rates for online learning are so high.

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

Hack Education

This talk was presented at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. ” We can see in Reagan’s pledge the roots of ongoing efforts to defund public education, something that enabled for-profit schools to step in to meet the demand for college. “Disrupt.”

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