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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

At the recent ALT-C Conference in Nottingham (which I couldn''t attend) a very good question was asked by Renee Filius on Twitter: How can we enable true two-way interaction between lecturers and students that is not too time consuming? 2) One popular social media site - Twitter - is a different proposition entirely.

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It's complicated

Learning with 'e's

We discussed the evolution of social media in higher education and also how institutional virtual learning environments (learning management systems) are being developed to cope with new demands of new learners.

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. Here are the suggestions which rolled in via Twitter , LinkedIn, Facebook, email, etc. Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud.

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

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). Learning by watching YouTube or participation in social media discussions are certainly methods that are gaining traction.

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