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Why 'A Domain of One's Own' Matters (For the Future of Knowledge)

Hack Education

I am best known, no doubt, for my criticism of education technology. Often when I say that I think that the “Domain of One’s Own” initiative is one of the most important education technologies, I always hear pushback from the Twitter riffraff. The technologies were not, at the outset, proprietary.

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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? Does technology provide any realistic, sustainable solutions?

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

Learning technology teacher development blog. Quick Shout Technology News. Im a learning technology consultant, writer and teacher trainer. Keep up with me on Twitter. technology. (3). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tips, resources and teaching materials for EFL and ESL teachers. Tuesday, 16 December 2008.

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Collaborative & Creative Online Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. Check out your VLE and see what tools and features already support collaboration and creativity. Does your VLE have forums, offer badges, or allow you to embed? If you are deciding on a VLE, consider the following.

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

Bryan Alexander

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. — Learning Technology (@learningtech) May 17, 2022. Looks like a GUI interface.

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It's complicated

Learning with 'e's

It's not easy integrating technology into education. I think this discussion highlights many of these factors and reveals some of the complexities of technology supported learning in higher education. It's complicated. A number of factors need to be considered, including the motivations and needs of our students. Unported License.

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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). Punk educators have a lot to do with this - it's not just the disruptive nature of social media and personal technologies.

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