Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 8, 2013

Should we use centralised services and endure all the constraints that accompany them, or should we instead use our own patchwork collection of tools, loosely aggregated social media and handheld personal devices that give us freedom, but at a price? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

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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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 23, 2015

I first met Joyce at the first Personal Learning Environment (PLE) conference in Barcelona in 2009 and we have been friends ever since. We were sat just a couple of seats away from each other, and were already friends on social media. I also met George for the first time at the Barcelona PLE event.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 29, 2019

It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages. The author claimed that academics who blog are simply avoiding 'the harshness of the peer review system' and that their ideas are 'Half-baked'.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2011

If someone had called, I would have said that this is project has at it''s core a mistaken idea: that social media and personal learning networks can be directed from the top down. It''s because these are individual connections created by the individual, and that is their value: they are personal.

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