Reclaiming the webinar: challenges and opportunities for live online learning

 Are webinars critical for distance learning? This question sparked lively conversation on the ALT mail list recently. The answers, from individuals with a wealth of experience in delivering live online learning, ranged from ‘not critical’, to ‘important’, to ‘it depends on the context’. Whatever the answer is in a particular situation, there was an underlying […] View Article

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More Than Blended Learning

In reality, blended learning has been in existence for decades but as a term in common usage in education and recognised as a legitimate approach, it has become fashionable only during the 21st Century. Essentially, mixing and matching a range of approaches and media to learning and teaching intentions is at the heart of blended […] View Article

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Moving towards learner autonomy – Stephen Downes on personal learning in a networked world

Yesterday I attended our new series NetworkEDGE: The Future of Education online, because we live stream (and record) these things and therefore I could. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Downes inaugurate, and I watched, listened and tweeted along. Downes shared his utopian anti-institutional view of education with us and that’s the kind of thing I lap up. […] View Article

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