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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. Windows, Android).

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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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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

Learning with 'e's

Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He spoke on EDUPUNK and the arrival of do-it-yourself learning where technology brought power to the individual. Listening to Jim Groom speak is a lot of fun.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Casey sees it not as a tool for learning, nor much of an administrative tool, but a content dissemination platform, “like a supermarket scanner” (cites Cat Finnegan’s research in the Virginia community college system).

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. Are they logging into the learning management system? Are they really learning anything? How quickly do they respond to students' messages in the learning management system?

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

They want to create a learning experience to introduce people to a topic they’re passionate about. Canvas – a popular learning management system/virtual learning environment for institutions, there is also a Free-for-Teacher service which might do the trick. — Learning Technology (@learningtech) May 17, 2022.

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

We’ve asked 3 Bett show speakers about their views on the tried-and-tested flipped classroom approach, which has been used to boost learning results from K-12 all the way through higher education for over 25 years. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. So what does this mean?