25 tools for learning

Great slideshare from Jane Hart. Just thinking about my top 10 tools for 2009

Communities of Practice Steve Dale

Communities of Practice: Conversations To Collaboration

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Social learning Jane Hart

From E-Learning to Social Learning

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Effective practice in a digital age JISC. Key principles for designing technology-enhanced learning

An extract from Effective practice in a digital age a guide to technology- enhanced learning and teaching by JISC

Key principles for designing technology-enhanced learning
“Blended learning exploits the affordances of technology to promote active participative learning in both face-to-face and online contexts.
Practitioners teach and learners learn in a context of increasing choice. Effective practice in a digital age includes selecting the most appropriate tools for the purpose.

Learners can be active makers and shapers of their own learning. They should be supported in using technologies of their own choice where appropriate.
Even advanced users of technology look to their tutors for guidance on how to use technology in learning. Understanding how to learn in a digital world is a vital skill.
When unfamiliar technologies are integrated into learning designs, the benefits need to be clearly communicated to learners.
Benefits arise when there is coherence between technologies and media, the learning tasks and outcomes, and subject-specific demands of a course.
Where technology is used, it extends the potential for learning and is not used for its own sake.”

Brain Friendly learning. Dr Itiel Dror

Dr. Itiel Dror brain friendly learning, technology and learning, enhanced cognition, e-learning

Google Wave

Google Wave presentation – abridged

Handbook of emerging technologies for learning

A handbook written by  George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger as well as a wiki that will continue to be updated is now available.

“This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.”

Really worth reading.

Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

An interesting article……. some extracts……………

“The most profound impact of the Internet is its ability to support and
expand the various aspects of social learning…….

It seems likely that a great deal of informal learning is taking place both
on and off campus via the online social networks………

The emphasis is on building a community of students and scholars as
much as on providing access to educational content.

These communities are harbingers of the emergence of a new form of
technology-enhanced learning—Learning 2.0.

The demand-pull approach is based on providing students with access to
rich (sometimes virtual) learning communities built around a practice.”

Blended Learning 2.0

Clive names the partnership of blended learning and informal learning ‘Blended Learning 2.0′

He says……

“…. blended learning and informal learning are not actually mutually exclusive concepts; in fact I will argue that they make very compatible bed-fellows. Blended learning can integrate informal learning methods; it can also act as a bridge to true informal learning; well beyond the scope of the formalised training course, in that area of our lives where real work gets done.”