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Games for girls

Learning with 'e's

Check out this little gem from Dan Kennedy on the VLE/PLE debate. Here is the title and abstract: Playing Games: Do Game Consoles have a Positive Impact on Girls’ Learning Outcomes and Motivation? Games based learning is currently a hotly debated topic in education and is a fertile field of study (Holmes, 2011; Abrams, 2009).

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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?

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Microsoft's free Learning Content Development System

Nik Peachey

When Microsoft start giving stuff away for free, it always makes me curious, and when I spotted this free LCDS (Learning Content Development System) a while back I decided to download it and give it a try. What I liked about it It wasn't difficult to learn how to use. It's all point and click, no programming languages to learn.

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Rubicon Atlas, Schoolbox integrate curriculum with learning management

eSchool News

Rubicon International, the creator of the curriculum management software platform Atlas, has announced a partnership with the learning management system (LMS) Schoolbox, created by Alaress. Having an effective curriculum directly connected to individual student outcomes is critical to improving teaching and learning.

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

Punk learning (some would call it Edupunk ) reflects that seventies music ethos. For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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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. ” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. “Everyone should learn to code,” as they like to tell us. “Disrupt.”

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