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This blog focuses on teaching, learning, and journalism education - with a focus on higher education (ie at university level). These themes reflect my work as a journalism lecturer at City University in London, and my research interests in these areas, including the scholarship of teaching and learning of journalism.

Cakes: Learning Technology Blog Learning Technology Development @ Edge Hill University

[thesis] The Influence of Web 2.0 on Technology Enhanced Learning by Martin Ebner

This paper suggests there is benefit in moving from andragogy towards truly self-determined learning. The concept of truly self-determined learning, called heutagogy, builds on humanistic theory and approaches to learning described in the 1950s. It is suggested that heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability. A number of implications of heutagogy for higher education and vocational education are discussed.

This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier  classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the  pedagogy that defines the learning experiences encapsulated in the learning design. The three  generations of cognitive-behaviourist, social constructivist, and connectivist pedagogy are  examined, using the familiar community of inquiry model (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) with its focus on social, cognitive, and teaching presences.

A refereed e-journal to advance research, theory and practice in open and distance learning worldwide

Let's talk - general conversation relating to learning and teaching Distance learning network Inclusivity network Student experience forum twitter

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Author of Communities of Practice, Situated Learning, Digital Habitats

Pschology of Learning Dr. C. George Boeree Shippensburg University

The transformational power of a high school journalism program set up as a learning community - why it works.

How to teach contemporary learners who refuse to be pruned into "nice shapes" like some bonsai tree? What can social media bring to education? Who will be the first to excel in converting social networks into education networks - students or teachers?

Special Issue - Connectivism: Design and Delivery of Social Networked Learning

The Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University connects innovation and expertise in learning and teaching and uses this collective power to change the face of education.
IET's programme of work is at the heart of the Open University's mission to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open and distance learning through the innovative use of technology.

Association of Learning Technology

Legislative context: current legal position; disclosure and confidentiality; disabilty equality duty. Admissions & induction, programme design & validation, lectures, practical sessions, groupwork, elearning & distance learning, work placements fieldtrips & study abroad, assessment, retention, progression & transission, employability: legislative guidance, equality issues, inclusive practice, references and further support for each section

Learning, Media and Technology - incorporating Education, Communication & Information - is an international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to stimulate debate on the interaction of innovations in educational theory and practices, with media and educational technologies. Media and technologies are interpreted in the broadest sense, to encompass digital broadcasting, the internet and online resources, and other new and emerging formats, as well as the traditional media of print, broadcast television and radio.

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