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

Learning with 'e's

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. Some did not have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with their peer group and sometimes suffered from prolonged lack of tutor contact. Yeomans, P.

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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? 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.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

However, as we become increasingly connected to each other through technology, and our social ties strengthen, so there is greater scope for students to learn together, sharing their resources and ideas, and approaching their study collaboratively. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ). But it's far from perfect.

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Why do so many Moodle courses suck?

Nik Peachey

Many of the other commercially available LMS (learning management systems) and VLE (virtual learning environment) platforms aren’t doing any better. To ignore the potential that online learning and new technology has to offer is to be like King Canute trying to order back the sea. And of course Moodle isn’t the only culprit.

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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? How many times have we invested in technology, environments and curricula that is simply a waste of time and resources? Instead of imposing his own ideas onto the community, the architect had crowd sourced his design.

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

Hack Education

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” ’” “She didn’t say anything positive about technology, dammit.”

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