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Learning with 'e's

On the left of the picture is Harold Jarche , who is chair of the Internet Time Alliance and a champion of social learning. I have followed his work for some time, but the first time I met Harold was at the Learning Technologies event in London in 2013. I also met George for the first time at the Barcelona PLE event.

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Learning with 'e's

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. Watch out in particular for his ideas around 'visualising networks' and how tools mediate connections.

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with 'e's

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

I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. 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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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. London: John Wiley and Sons. Delfino, M.,

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with 'e's

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. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9. They are the important form of unchoreographed public discourse we have.” Lessig, 2005, p. What The Flip? (>29,000

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GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

- Mark Otter, Chief Product Officer Earth E/mergent - Global Virtual Sensing Networks for Gaian Educational Emergence - Marna Hauk, Graduate Faculty Multicultural Game Design Teams as an Intro to Computer Science - Mark Suter, Teacher 10:00am ED4ALL - The Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) and the Inter-American Collaboratory on the Teaching (..)

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