Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 29, 2018

This past week the incredible Alan November and I delivered mini keynotes for the Rethink Learning Summit hosted by ItsLearning. In the recording, you will first be blown away by Alan November ‘s keynote, which would motivate any teacher to see the powerful ways students learn with technology. My Keynote Slides.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 10, 2017

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). One of the central ed technologies, as well as one of the most controversial, and yet also accepted as a nearly universal commonplace. I’ve been tracking it since the 20th century. At some point soon I’ll write more about what we discovered.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 29, 2018

This past week the incredible Alan November and I delivered mini keynotes for the Rethink Learning Summit hosted by ItsLearning. In the recording, you will first be blown away by Alan November ‘s keynote, which would motivate any teacher to see the powerful ways students learn with technology. My Keynote Slides.

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LMS Blended Learning Classroom Social Media 150

Hack Education

APRIL 4, 2017

These remarks were given at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. I am best known, no doubt, for my criticism of education technology. The technologies were not, at the outset, proprietary. “What’s so special about a website?” ” folks will sneer.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 13, 2011

Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or sadly, no web based use at all) is an alternative. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 10, 2017

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). One of the central ed technologies, as well as one of the most controversial, and yet also accepted as a nearly universal commonplace. I’ve been tracking it since the 20th century. At some point soon I’ll write more about what we discovered.

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Moodle LMS VLE Trends 40

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

How many times have we invested in technology, environments and curricula that is simply a waste of time and resources? 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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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. 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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Nik Peachey

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Learning technology teacher development blog. To find out more read: Subtitling your video clips LangoLab LangoLab is a video sharing website designed for anyone who want to learn or teach any language. Quick Shout Technology News. Microsoft's free Learning Content Development Syst. Newer Post.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Does technology provide any realistic, sustainable solutions? 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. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2013

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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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

This is number 30 in my series on learning theories. As usual, this is a simplified and concise interpretation, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature. It takes several hours to learn a systems such as typing on a keyboard, and several more months to become competent to the point of expertise.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

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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Nik Peachey

JULY 31, 2014

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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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 2, 2015

“The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative … productive … learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

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 is nicknamed the 'Reverend' (oh the irony), and is a purveyor of American pop culture, experimental educational technology and out-of-left-field philosophy.

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Mark Smithers

APRIL 25, 2016

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. As a former academic and a former senior manager in IT services in one of Australia’s largest universities and as someone for whom the role of technology in universities is fundamental to the ability to innovate, I have to say that Martin is completely correct.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

After all, with the way technology has become interwoven into our daily lives, it only makes sense that our educational structure adapts to this shift to leverage the power of technology in the classroom. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. Well, you’re not alone.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 29, 2022

With educational technology going through a paradigm shift of worldwide acceptance, both leadership and academia in the education sector are moving towards incorporating virtual lab options with real-time guidance and feedback. Unlike the traditional physical lab setup, virtual labs offer students a personal immersive learning experience.

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Nik Peachey

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This was the first time in a while I had been asked to teach such long courses and i thought it was a great opportunity to see if I could fundamentally change the way the teachers related to technology, not just in the classroom as a tool for teaching learners, but as a tool within their everyday working practice.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

This was the first-half of a joint presentation at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. From the outset of his career, Prince was incredibly interested in computers and with technological experimentation – in how computers might affect art and relationships and creativity and love.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

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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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 1, 2016

While I was there I did several presentations and workshops, and also recorded an interview 'on the sofa' with Director of Learning Facilities, Associate Professor Mike Sankey. We concluded by discussing the merits of personalised learning environments and how to promote change and innovation in traditional education contexts.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

“Technology is just a tool. Recently, I conducted a webinar for SimpleK12’s technology day, Technophobe to Technoninja. I had a fun time creating the presentation, The Tech Ninja Guide , which is full of tips for integrating technology effectively. Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers and Learning to Go.

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Mark Smithers

JUNE 28, 2011

I’ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a ‘map’. Specifically they focussed on the product rather than the tool or technology.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

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). Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

I think because I started to sound a bit like a fervent preacher when I started talking about teaching, learning and technology. I just got lucky when I came to UMW that they not only allowed, but encouraged me to take a similar approach to my work with instructional technology and bavatuesdays became the outlet for that.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

This talk was presented at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. Indeed, we need to look at histories of the future and ask why certain people have wanted the future to take a certain shape, why certain technologies (and their stories) have been so compelling. I listen to stories.

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