Transforming distance learning

I’ve just been looking over the notes I made when Steve Wheeler came to talk to us on Monday (I love the name of his blog btw). I wrote down a couple of quotes:
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school – Einstein

I can’t teach anyone anything – I can [...]

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In this recent paper in Action Research Expeditions, Margaret Farren reports on her PhD thesis, which examines the growth of her educational knowledge and development of her practice over six years of self-study.
As an E-Learning development officer, working with mid-career Engineering Masters students who are completely new to online collaboration, I particularly enjoyed [...]

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On Jack’s recommendation, I’ve been looking at this 2005 publication of John White’s selected works in order to gain an understanding of his personal philosophy. In his earlier writings (in the 50’s and 60’s, when schools had autonomy over the curriculum), White argued for ‘a compulsory curriculum’ – but it’s clear that Kenneth Baker’s National [...]

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