Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 13, 2019

More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community. Free Virtual Learning Environments.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Learning should always come before technology. Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching. Let me elaborate. Unported License.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers and Learning to Go. Develop a Professional/Personal/Passionate Learning Network (PLNs). Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Have students learn the tools, then train others.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

What are digital learning platforms? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. While the role of the instructor remains undiminished, students today have several resources at their fingertips, allowing them to take control and self-direct their learning.

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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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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. Mini Keynote!

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 10, 2017

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). Based on our Forum and blog conversations, I hope to raise questions about how Moodle software and its supporting community will evolve in response to increasing use of mobile devices, to gamification, to big data, data analytics, personalized learning, and more?

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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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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 8, 2013

Those who are involved in the ''do it yourself'' approach to learning will tell you that there is quite a struggle going on right now between institutions and individuals over what tools to use for the serious business of lifelong learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

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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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2015

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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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. How can we reach a place in education where students find their own level and make their own pathways through learning? Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways.

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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 recognize that learning these technologies takes time and effort. So does learning how to navigate the VLE. I am best known, no doubt, for my criticism of education technology.

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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. Mini Keynote!

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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. This time, Richard and his colleagues discussed whether the VLE should be rebirthed. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. It was all food for thought indeed.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 10, 2017

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). Based on our Forum and blog conversations, I hope to raise questions about how Moodle software and its supporting community will evolve in response to increasing use of mobile devices, to gamification, to big data, data analytics, personalized learning, and more?

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. However, bear in mind that most VLEs have online discussion threads that all of the group can see and read. 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

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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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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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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Nik Peachey

JUNE 1, 2007

The Nicenet Classroom Assistant is a really useful tool which enables teachers to very quickly and simply create their own virtual learning environment. Features The VLE it creates has a number of useful features. It’s very safe as only registered users have access. Users can only add text, as it doesn’t support picture formats.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

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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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

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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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. Microsoft's free Learning Content Development Syst. Top tools for e-learning. Tuesday, 16 December 2008.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 13, 2012

In it, they represented a number of perspectives on personal learning environments, including a discussion on the differential between institutionally managed Virtual Learning Environments (or VLEs) and the free tools that learners are now using on the web. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Just saying.)

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Mark Smithers

APRIL 25, 2016

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. Furthermore, they have a pre-conceived idea of what a university is or does and refuse to learn. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. The things that made them successful simply do not translate. We don’t have that at the moment.

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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 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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Mark Smithers

JUNE 28, 2011

So you would get a map that nearly always showed the LMS/VLE product at the centre with an eportfolio, some streaming media and some other technologies around the edge. Whether they were learning tools or management tools and whether the tools were focussed on the student or the staff member etc.

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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. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE). The better half was delivered by Jim Groom.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 29, 2022

While virtual labs aren’t a completely new phenomenon and have been around for quite some time, the access to more advanced virtual learning environments (VLE) and industry-grade equipment have given a whole new meaning to this concept in an educational context. . Flexibility in the Learning Process. Better Engagement.

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Nik Peachey

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I also wanted to use a form of loop input (using the technology to teach the technology) so that teachers were learning about the technologies they could use with students by actually using them for themselves. type learning tools I was introducing I wanted something more visual as a reminder, so I used SimplyBox.

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Nik Peachey

JUNE 18, 2008

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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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

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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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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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). Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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