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Vicarious Learning

se the web site resources to develop high quality learning experiences for students by  * exploring a range of proven learning designs, with exemplar aspects and full instructions on how to implement the designs (exemplars) * examining a set of generic learning designs to apply in your knowledge domain (guides) * making use of a set of tools for supporting learners (tools) * reviewing the principles for design of high quality learning experiences (the project)

In this video Downes shares his utopian anti-institutional view of education. He pleads for "learning beyond institutions", towards personal learning in a networked world.  Move towards anarchic learning, based on no models, no systems, no traditional ideals. Move beyond institutions and towards self-organised networks of learners. "Content is the McGuffin it's the thing that gets us talking with each other" "its the connections between people and neurones that is the actual learning"

The popularity of mobile technologies among college students is increasing dramatically. Results from the ECAR research study on students suggest that many undergraduate students bring their own digital devices to college, favoring small and portable ones such as smartphones and tablets. 2 Although students still rate laptops (85 percent) as the most important devices to their academic success, the importance of mobile devices such as tablets (45 percent), smartphones (37 percent), and e-book readers (31 percent) is noticeably on the rise. Increasingly, students say they want the ability to access academic resources on their mobile devices.3 In fact, 67 percent of students' smartphones and tablets are reportedly being used for academic purposes, a rate that has nearly doubled in just one year.4

Despite the pedagogical advantages of collaborative learning, online learners can perceive collaborative learning activities as frustrating experiences

Thanks for this. I'm currently trying to put together TMA03. I'm really interested in OU Live but struggling to select a second technology. I'm tempted to look at either Wikis or blogs. This article looks as though it's really interesting should I select Wikis. I hope you're enjoying the course. Teresa

There are many ways to slice and dice the types of mobile learning content. One way is by starting with the simplest kind of messaging and move to the most complex:

mobile learning languages

How to decide whether to engage in training or in education?  And how to know which is needed, if maybe not both? There are several attributes of education and training that can help answer each question. The table (Based on Arthur Chickering's work in Education and Identity, Jossie-Bass, 1993) summarizes the attributes of education and training and poses the critical questions the learner must answer when choosing between them.

When does learning begin?

I've found that use of the interpersonal action-learning cycle can have profound effects in several areas of module-based education.

Video: How changing knowledge needs and structures are influencing the development of new learning systems and models Discusses constructivism and the diminished relevance of the teacher and their recommended texts/learning materials.

A Model of Accessible m-Learning

I only learned recently that I've not been enrolled in MOOC classes at all, but have instead been involved with something called an xMOOC

Good image: visual note taking

Ownership in New Zealand school