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Roger Harrison

teaching styles - Donald Clark Plan B - 2 views

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  • What is Plan B? Not Plan A! Sunday, March 18, 2012 Socrates (469-399 BC) - method man Socrates was one of the few teachers who actually died for his craft, executed by the Athenian authorities for supposedly corrupting the young. Most learning professionals will have heard of the ‘Socratic method’ but few will know that he never wrote a single word describing this method, fewer still will know that the method is not what it is commonly represented to be. How many have read the Socratic dialogues? How many know what he meant by his method and how he practised his approach? Socrates, in fact, wrote absolutely nothing. It was Plato and Xenophon who record his thoughts and methods through the lens of their own beliefs. We must remember, therefore, that Socrates is in fact a mouthpiece for the views of others. In fact the two pictures painted of Socrates by these two commentators differ hugely. In the Platonic Dialogues he is witty, playful and a great philosophical theorist, in Xenophon he is a dull moraliser. Socratic method Th
  • he was among the first to recognise that, in terms of learning, ideas are best generated from the learner in terms of understanding and retention. Education is not a cramming in, but a drawing out.
  • Learning as a social activity pursued through dialogue Questions lie at the heart of learning to draw out what they already know, rather than imposing pre-determined views
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  • it is only in the last few decades, through the use of technology-based tools that allow search, questioning and now, adaptive learning, that Socratic learning can be truly realised on scale.
  • In practice, Socrates was a brutal bully, described by one pupil as a ‘predator which numbs its victims with an electric charge before darting in for the kill’.
  • He is best known for his problem-solving approach to learning
  • He was keen on ‘occupational’ learning and practical skills that produced independent, self-directing, autonomous adults.
  • He was refreshingly honest about their limitations and saw schools as only one means of learning, ‘and compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means’.
  • Perhaps his most important contribution to education is his constant attempts to break down the traditional dualities in education between theory and practice, academic and vocational, public and private, individual and group. This mode of thinking, he thought, led education astray. The educational establishment, in his view, seemed determined to keep themselves, and their institutions, apart from the real world by holding on to abstract and often ill-defined definitions about the purpose of education.
  • Roger Harrison on 18 Apr 13
     
    Helpful blog, including brief introduction of educational theories by Socrates (and he wasn't such a nice guy after all) and others.
Roger Harrison

Design-Based Research Methods (DBR) | Learning Theories - 0 views

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  • educators have been trying to narrow the chasm between research and practice. Part of the challenge is that research that is detached from practice “may not account for the influence of contexts, the emergent and complex nature of outcomes, and the incompleteness of knowledge about which factors are relevant for prediction” (DBRC, 2003).
  • The need to address theoretical questions about the nature of learning in context The need for approaches to the study of learning phenomena in the real world situations rather than the laboratory
David Jennings

Managing Learning Technology: How To Build MOOC's that Fail - 0 views

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MOOC CourseDesign course critique ocTEL

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  • David Jennings on 20 Sep 12
     
    "Many MOOC's currently represent a sort of parody of higher education's worst practices, its most spectacular delusions about itself." Some pitfalls to avoid
Maha Abed

OLT TEL What works and why? Understanding successful technology-enabled learning within... - 0 views

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  • Maha Abed on 23 Apr 15
     
    "This project addresses the long-standing gap between the rhetoric and the realities of TEL. For example, it examines the disparities between the educational potential of technology in comparison to what takes place in practice. This is a tension that recurs throughout much of the research and practitioner literature on technology use within higher education. On one hand, there is evidence for the potential of digital technology to support and sustain meaningful and effective forms of learning. Networked digital technologies have undoubtedly transformed the generation and communication of knowledge and, it follows, that this has influenced the ways in which learning takes place. The potential to 'support', 'enable', or even 'enhance' learning has therefore been associated with every significant development in digital technology over the past twenty years or so."
Elizabeth E Charles

Project CoPILOT: Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching - 0 views

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  • Elizabeth E Charles on 21 Apr 13
     
    A case study of an international online community. Nancy Graham & Jane Secker. [Higher Education Academy]
jim pettiward

Heutagogy and lifelong learning: A review of heutagogical practice and self-determined ... - 0 views

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  • jim pettiward on 20 Apr 13
     
    Heutagogy and Lifelong Learning by Lisa Blaschke (University of Oldenburg) - a useful look at heutagogy and its relation to new technologies
Rose Heaney

Supporting staff - Jisc infoNet - 0 views

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  • lack of time to engage with new tools
  • focusing on the subject specialism is the best way to engage teaching, support staff and students in conversations about what it means to be digitally literate in a particular discipline.
  • Aligned with that is the curriculum design process.
  • Rose Heaney on 02 May 14
     
    From newly published (May 2014) JISC Digital Literacies infokit
  • Rose Heaney on 02 May 14
     
    From newly published (May 2014) JISC Digital Literacies infokit
Rose Heaney

UCISA: Engaging hearts and minds Best Practice Guide - 0 views

www.ucisa.ac.uk/...engaging.aspx

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  • Rose Heaney on 02 May 14
     
    As recommended by Julie Voce
  • Rose Heaney on 02 May 14
     
    As recommended by Julie Voce
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