The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2011

If someone had called, I would have said that this is project has at it''s core a mistaken idea: that social media and personal learning networks can be directed from the top down. It''s because these are individual connections created by the individual, and that is their value: they are personal.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from others about the PLE and how it would revolutionise learning. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 29, 2019

I haven't given up on peer reviewed publishing, but I have turned away from closed journals and publications toward openness and accessibility. It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 15, 2019

I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Suddenly, most of the South American continent had access to my work, and the link back to my blog include, ensured an increased visitor count.

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