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PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism

Learning with 'e's

He argued that in the new learning ecology, where technology can connect students to any others, and any content, any where in the world, is one in which content must change. And this was exactly the guiding principle of the earliest MOOCs. ELI_2015 connectivism education learning MOOC PLE Stephen Downes Technology'

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with 'e's

There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 183-193.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The five projects are listed below, and each links to a project group on the conference site--please join one or more and then let us know how Lucy and I can help turn these into realities!

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New learning environments: The challenge and the promise #EDENchat

Learning with 'e's

There are all sorts of possibilities thanks to new technologies. Although distance education has been in existence for more than a century, the various technological means by which it can now be conducted have advanced quickly.