Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 28, 2015

I first met Alec Couros among that amazing gathering of people at the inaugural PLE (Personal Learning Environment) conference in Barcelona, in 2010. Alec is Professor of educational technology at the University of Regina in Canada. When you hear Alec speak you realise just how passionate he is about openness in education.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 6, 2015

Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Although it''s a fundamental principle of progressive education, keeping the student at the centre seems to be something that not many schools, colleges and universities are good at. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

In this photo I'm with Jay Cross and Graham Attwell, at a conference in Salzburg, Austria. He has some radical things to say about education, and he isn't always popular. I then wrote and published a flurry of papers on social media and education, and around the same time I set up this blog.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 29, 2019

Fire And Brimstone (>92,000 views, 11 comments) I wrote this post in a beach hotel just outside Lisbon, Portugal where I was an invited speaker at a conference. The Meaning Of Pedagogy (>62,000 views, 8 comments) This was a post I wrote in response to questions from my students while working at the Plymouth Institute of Education.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2019

Photo by Marshall Henrie on Wikimedia Commons My keynote speech at the nextEd2019 conference in Lisbon was titled 'Personalising learning in the digital age'. I explained by pointing out the marvellous structure of the Jerónimos Monastery , just across the road from the conference centre.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 1, 2012

conference held at Brunel University, in West London. I recently gave a keynote at the eLearning 2.0 The presentation was a reworked version of one I gave earlier in the year in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 28, 2016

Unfortunately, most of us are products of education systems that are based on the industrial model of education which is far removed from personalised learning. Friedrich Nietzsche once said: 'In large states public education will be mediocre in the same way that cooking in large kitchens is usually bad.'

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 13, 2011

With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web. Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. Sound like a PLE? Almost, but not quite.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If you''re in the Americas, the inaugural (and free) OZeLive virtual conference starts today, Friday, at 4pm Eastern. If you''re in Australia, New Zealand, or the South Pacific, the conference starts tomorrow, Saturday, at 8am Australia Eastern Time. Here are all the conference sessions, hour by hour, in US Eastern Standard Time.

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