Innovatieve eLearning

People who have taken dozens of massive open online courses share their advice for those teaching them.

iPads have certainly become a highly desired commodity in education. Apple is reporting that schools are purchasing iPads by a ratio of 2:1 over MacBooks. However, that rush to purchase the latest technologies often precedes the careful planning and preparation that’s crucial to their success as educational tools.

Stated simply, technology alone doesn’t have the capacity to improve education. It needs to be woven into a holistic approach to education that encompasses thorough planning and ongoing review of the skills and competencies required by the rapidly changing society that characterizes life in the 21st century.

There has always been at least some sort of disconnect between how things like mobile learning are taught in a classroom and how things work in the 'real world'.

Topografie in de klas - een volledig gratis online methode om topografie te leren - is een initiatief van Dennis Hunink, docent aardrijkskunde aan het DevelsteinCollege in Zwijndrecht...

Steeds jonger aan de iPad
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Steeds jonger aan de iPad. AMSTERDAM - Circa 13 procent van de 1-jarigen speelt al met een tablet en een op de vijf peuters van 2 jaar doet spelletjes op een smartphone.

The problem is that the decision makers often don’t have the marketing skills to differentiate between different addressable audiences. External adult learners may not want a long-winded, over-engineered, six to ten week course on anything. Life’s too short. Yet academics are used to producing courses of this semester length. What many may want are mini MOOCs. They may want them to be asynchronous starting and ending when convenient for them. This, of course, is exactly what’s happening. All in all, however, the good news is that MOOCs are forcing HE institutions to change. MOOCs may very well be the force that makes them more open, transparent and relevant. There will, of course, be a backlash, but the digital genie is out of the bottle - MOOCs are here to stay.

What are the stages of technology in learning, and how can these stages be used as a framework for improving learning?

The problem is that Wikipedia in the classroom has gotten a bad reputation in the K-12 world, undeservedly so I think. I would suggest that Wikipedia can be used for a multitude of educational purposes at a wide variety of grade levels. Too many teachers are still afraid to use it in class, so I’m here to right that wrong and show our educators how they can responsibly integrate Wikipedia into their lessons.

'Flippen' in het onderwijs!(Must-see voor iedereen die educatief bezig is: Flipping the Classroom by Lieke Borkent-de Zeeuw on Prezi http://t.co/6PITtYWXRI #onderwijs)...

Making the move from our safe and trusted traditional literacy habits to newer digital skills can be quite a challenge, but as teachers I think we are really unlikely to be able to use technology and help our students use technology really effectively unless we are prepared to face this challenge. Technology needs to be more than part of the way we teach but it also has to be part of the way we ourselves continue to learn and part of our everyday professional practice.

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