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Education is fundamentally about sharing knowledge. Teachers share knowledge with students. Students share their questions with teachers. The teachers share feedback, criticism and encouragement with…
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Archive for April 2016
Digitisation – the death of the classroom?
I asked an education colleague last week if he thought that digitisation would bring about the death of the classroom. By that I meant the physical classroom or lecture theatre where rows of students…
Read moreI’d like my education blended and flipped, please
‘Blended’ and ‘flipped’ sounds more like a request for a Sunday breakfast than a method for learning in a higher education institution. But the ‘flipped classroom’ is growing in importance as…
Read moreFrom Textbook to PLE communities
I’m old enough to remember taking a textbook from a shelf in a university library, thumbing through it to find the chapters or pages that referred to the subject of my essay...
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