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Is the ADDIE model appropriate for teaching in a digital age?
Gabi Witthaus's insight:Tony Bates presents an interesting perspective here, although I am not sure that the ADDIE model itself lends itself to a lot of debate. It is almost impossible *not* to follow...
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Learning Theory.html
Gabi Witthaus's insight:A great infographic from the EU project HOTEL.See it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and supporting online learning
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eLearning Papers Special Edition: learning anywhere, Opening up Education and...
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Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class
Anyone distracted in class doesn’t just lose out on the content of the discussion but creates a sense of permission that opting out is OK, and, worse, a haze of second-hand distraction for peers.Gabi...
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Manual
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A critique of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences by John White
Gabi Witthaus's insight:http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/1263/1/WhiteJ2005HowardGardner1.pdfSee it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and supporting online learning
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elearn Magazine: Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed...
A learning style is supposedly a mode of learning that is most effective for an individual. It supposedly helps to improve learning results. Why does this myth persist? Twenty-five years of research...
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Professors argue for a new online learning model in Teaching Crowds book
Why learn from a teacher or a tired old formal institution when you can learn from an online crowd? A couple of AU profs explore this question in their new book, Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social...
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Some thoughts about CPD for academics who teach online
Introduction I was recently asked by a colleague to make some recommendations for a continuing professional development (CPD) programme for academics who teach online at a UK university, and...
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Howard Gardner: ‘Multiple intelligences’ are not ‘learning styles’
The famed psychologist explains why one is not the other though they are often confused.Gabi Witthaus's insight:Howard Gardner defends his concept of multiple intelligences by distancing it from the...
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How to... avoid questionable questions! |
Carole Bower provides top tips on how to write good assessment questionsGabi Witthaus's insight:This is not new, but a great summary by Carole Bower on how to write MCQs. Thanks to David Kernohan's...
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Reclaiming Personal Learning ~ Stephen's Web
Stephen's Web, the home page of Stephen Downes, with news and information on e-learning, new media, instructional technology, educational design, and related subjectsSee it on Scoop.it, via Learning...
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Applying the Interaction Equivalency Theorem to Online Courses in a Large...
Applying the Interaction Equivalency Theorem to Online Courses in a Large Organization Brenda Cecilia Padilla Rodriguez Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Alejandro Armellini University of...
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Infographic: The Optimal Length for Every Social Media Update
The optimal length for social media posts and all other forms of online content. Get best practices for tweets, posts, blogs, and more.See it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and...
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The Case for Group Work - Blackboard Blog
Students hate group work. They’re vocal about it, too; check out a search for “group work” on Twitter, and you’ll see many, many complaints.See it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and...
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Storyboarding for learning design OOC is launched!
Today is the start of the Storyboarding for Learning Design open online course (OOC). Brenda Padilla, Jeff Stanford and I will be co-facilitating it. I promised in an earlier post that I would...
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The High Cost of Neuromyths in Education
Instead of believing in the right/left brain, learning styles, and that we use only ten percent of our brains, we should focus on neuroscience research.See it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for...
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» Why you should do design based research (DBR) Virtual Canuck
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Sense of community in a blended technology integration course: A design-based...
Sense of community in a blended technology integration course: A design-based research studySee it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and supporting online learning
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Storyboarding OOC Week 3: learning outcomes and assessment
Week 3 of the Storyboarding OOC just ended. It was an interesting one, with an initial debate around the question as to whether learning outcomes are really necessary. There was general agreement...
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Gabi Witthaus's insight:A really useful portal on assessment and feedback from the University of Northampton.See it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and supporting online learning
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HEA Feedback toolkit.pdf
Gabi Witthaus's insight:This is a really useful document from the UK's Higher Education Academy (2013), with findings from research amongst students as to what makes feedback more or less useful, and...
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Wikipedia should be 'better integrated' into teaching
Last year, the University of California, Berkeley became the first higher education institution to hire a “Wikipedian in residence”, Kevin Gorman, to help students to publish academic work on the...
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2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf
Gabi Witthaus's insight:The annual NMC report on trends in higher education is out. Most useful I think are the links to recently published articles and reports by people and institutions that are...
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Intended Learning Outcomes | MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory
Gabi Witthaus's insight:A useful resource from MIT on how to write learning outcomes for coursesSee it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling and supporting online learning
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Using technology to improve curriculum design | Jisc
Developing an agile and responsive curriculum to meet the diverse needs of students and employers in the 21st century.Gabi Witthaus's insight:Interesting Curriculum Design cycle diagram from JISC.See...
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Enhancing the student digital experience: a strategic approach | Jisc
Supporting institutions to develop digital environments which meet students’ expectations and help them to prepare for higher study and employmentSee it on Scoop.it, via Learning design for enabling...
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EJEL - Current issue
Gabi Witthaus's insight:Some great articles here - including 'The Flipped Classroom, Disruptive Pedagogies, Enabling Technologies and Wicked Problems: Responding to ‘the Bomb in the Basement’ by Maggie...
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Students' views on independent learning: findings from an HEA-NUS study
Today I participated in a workshop run by the Higher Education Academy and National Union of Students in York in which they shared their findings from a study on independent learning. The work is...
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The Course Hath No Bottom: the 20,000-Person Seminar
Is it possible to scale up and down simultaneously — to create more and more intimate learning experiences for larger and larger groups of learners?Gabi Witthaus's insight:This is the most insightful...
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