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Do Smart Devices Make Smart Learners?
Jul 27th
As part of my Open University H800 course I’ve just read Do Smart Devices Make Smart Learners? and feel like I’m missing the point. To me it was more like a hardware review you’d find in a PC magazine than an article about learning. Perhaps the title is misleading? Or perhaps More >
How should roles, curriculum, assessment and education institutions be reconfigured?
Jun 24th
Whilst researching the above question for my H800 course I found the following interesting blog post from the Educational Paradigms blog:
Teaching Is Not About Knowing (Anymore)I think this quote summarises the post very well:
It’s not about knowing. It’s about pointing the way and providing the tools (for students to create, learn, succeed).
However, More >
Impressed with WordPress
Jun 20th
Students’ frustrations with a web-based distance education course
Jun 19th
The following quotes come from an article by Hara and Kling (1999): ‘Students’ frustrations with a web-based distance education course’. I have picked out the sections that seemed most interesting to me.
The literature about distance education is dominated by enthusiastic studies and accounts.
Distance education advocates argue that the increasing number of More >
A new start
Jun 12th
Right. After a false start with blogging in February, here’s my second attempt. Block 3 of my Technology-enhanced learning course at the OU started last week, so I’m determined to use blogging as a way of recording and reflecting on my studies. And hopefully it’ll provide extra motivation to keep on More >
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