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Kev Harland

Nonconceptual content and objectivity - 0 views

  • In general, we may regard a perceptual experience as an informational state of the subject: it has a certain content -- the world is represented a certain way -- and hence it permits of a non-derivative classification as true or false. For an internal state to be so regarded, it must have appropriate connections with behaviour -- it must have a certain motive force upon the actions of the subject.... The informational states which a subject acquires through perception are non-conceptual, or nonconceptualised. Judgements based upon such states necessarily involve conceptualisation.
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Vicarious Learning | IGI Global - 0 views

  • However, the specific suggestion we address here is that vicarious learning is a distinct idea that may have its own implications, particularly for distance learners and others whose access to normal learning dialogue is limited.
  • Vicarious learning accordingly arises in situations where a learning experience is witnessed and reacted to as a learning experience by another learner.
  • This is a clear example of vicarious learning where the focus of the learning episode is some cognitive skill or understanding
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  • The Answer Garden (Ackerman & Malone, 1990) and Answer Web (Slater, 1993) are computer-based learning systems based on networks of questions that have been asked by learners and answered by experts, allowing future learners simply to access these exchanges and thus to learn vicariously.
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    Vicarious Learning
Kev Harland

Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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      Mentions many to many learning or Peer to Peer
  • Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration
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Week 5: Knowing, media and forms of representation: Learning and artefacts - 0 views

  • mportant questions about the ways in which learning complex systems can be assisted by making use of the same technological environments that give rise to the learning need
Kev Harland

Of mind and media: EBSCOhost - 1 views

  • different forms of representation have what philosophers call different fields of reference.
  • even when different symbolic forms of representation address the same field of reference, conveying (what appears to be) the same information
  • strongly colored by the knowledge structures ("schemata") we already possess
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  • much may depend on the richness and organization of the knowledge schemata one brings to bear on the incoming information
  • affect meanings is a matter of balance between them and the richness of one's schemata
  • the convergence of findings supports the conclusion that different symbolic forms of representation require different symbolic capacities
  • basic symbolic forms of representation--language, number, spatial relations, movement, pitch
  • The seven intelligences he describes (linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal)
  • different symbolic forms of representation are processed by different sets of mental skills and capacities
  • hildren do not expend much mental effort on a televised story, even when it is quite poetic and requires effort
  • Thus they learn far less from it than from an equivalent story in print.
  • Where or when television is perceived as a serious medium
  • They also seem to be gradually changing the meaning of "knowledge," from something that is possessed to something to which we have access
Kev Harland

Collaborative problem-solving, ie project work, is back in fashion | Fran Abrams | Educ... - 0 views

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    Recent guardian post
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The Battle for Open - a perspective | Weller | Journal of Interactive Media in Education - 0 views

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    Martin Weller argues that openness in education has been successful in establishing itself as an approach. However, this initial victory should be viewed as part of a larger battle around the nature of openness. Drawing lessons from history and the green movement, a number of challenges for the open education movement are identified as it enters this new stage.
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What sort of open do you want? - The Ed Techie - 1 views

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    It's more useful to consider the motivation for openness, why has someone adopted an open approach in the first place? Here are some possibilities:
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Week 11 Activity 4c Costs and elearning - 0 views

  • The most succinct summation of this question was provided by an accountant who was in my group a couple of years ago. She phrased it as: (£ consuming vs £ benefit)
Kev Harland

PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption - 1 views

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      Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen weighs in on the PDF debate
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    Summary: Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.
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Whadya mean "openness has won"? - The Ed Techie - 2 views

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    Whadya Mean "Openness Has Won"?
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G140: Separating information and structure from presentation to enable different presen... - 2 views

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    Allowing content to be read on any mobile device. 
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More Thoughts on Categories of Mobile Learning Content | Float Mobile Learning - 4 views

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    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:
Kev Harland

Obsoletive: Revolutionary Products in Tech Don't Disrupt-They Obsolete - 1 views

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    In 2006, the Nokia 1600 was the top-selling phone in the world, and the BlackBerry Pearl the best-selling smartphone.2 Both were only a year away from their doom, but that doom was not a cheaper, less-capable product, but in fact the exact opposite: a far more powerful, and fantastically more expensive product called the iPhone.
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Design Methodologies - 1 views

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    Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state." - Herbert Simo
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Education versus Training: Selecting the Right Lifelong Learning Experience | The EvoLL... - 1 views

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    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.
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Are online learners frustrated with collaborative learning experiences? | Capdeferro | ... - 2 views

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    Despite the pedagogical advantages of collaborative learning, online learners can perceive collaborative learning activities as frustrating experiences
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    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
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Government Digital Inclusion Strategy - GOV.UK - 2 views

  • access - the ability to actually go online and connect to the internet skills - to be able to use the internet motivation - knowing the reasons why using the internet is a good thing trust - a fear of crime, or not knowing where to start to go online
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    This was published mid April 2014 and has relevance to the debate about the digital divide.
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OER as Educational Philosophy - 0 views

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    This is a slideshare. Slide 12 onwards cover OER philosophy as well as definitions, interpretations and scope.
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xMOOC vs. cMOOC - MOOC Pedagogy - Degree of Freedom - 2 views

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    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
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