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Learning Beyond the Classroom

  By netcrit | April 30, 2012 - 16:25 | Speak
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I spoke recently at the Media140 Perth Conference, on the digitalfamily day, presenting some views on the now and future state of education, in which social media and digital media devices will make a big difference to the way that we think about learning. My presentation is a visual evocation of both the similarities between school education in the past and the differences which new connective technologies are bringing. Slides, with full notes, are available. Click to read more →

Networked, Integrated, Augmented: towards a future when all learning is e-learning

  By netcrit | March 1, 2011 - 11:58 | Speak
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In March 2011, I present a paper at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education University of Melbourne which lays out an argument that we should no longer be identifying e-learning as something different to learning. All learning is now, or will soon become ‘e’, in the sense that it is mediated by computer networks, digital media devices and so on. Click to read more →

Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications

  By netcrit | May 2, 2010 - 12:19 | Speak
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While visting the UK, I will present a detailed account of the way social media, Web 2.0 and the read/write web cab be understood for higher education in terms of authentic assessment. Crucially, I am trying to show, by examples from the Internet Communications course at Curtin, how the use of Web 2.0 in blended and online learning can more generally be based on real-world knowledge production, in knowledge networks, that bridge the growing gap between formal and informal learning via the Internet. Slides with notes available. Click to read more →

Using Web 2.0 in your teaching: ideas, applications and affordances for enhanced educational outcomes

  By netcrit | April 5, 2010 - 12:11 | LINK project, Speak
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In 2010 I will be travelling to many Australian universities presenting the outcomes from my ALTC-funded project on Learning in Networks of Knowledge. This presentation focuses heavily on the way that a wide array of Web 2.0 / social media applications can be used in higher education, whether in distance or on-campus learning. The presentation will demonstrate a ‘top 10’ innovative services as examples of what can be done. Designed to provide practical, usable ideas, the presentation emphasises how the technologies which might be chosen must be understood in terms of their relationship to the content, assessment, outcomes of learning, and the particular context provided by students and the subjects they are studying. Handouts and slides are available. Click to read more →