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This week we were looking at some of the most ambitious challenges in the VET sector: - reaching more learners, with good support, while not increasing teachers' workload overall - supporting learners to be more independent learners - reducing the costs of innovation, while maintaining the benefits. My notes: 1) teacher's productivity (Step 2.4. where I found these gorgeous tools in the comments:  Quizlet Cram  - flashcards) 2) independent learning Unfortunately, I have no experience of working with Moodle or any other VLE, my institution doesn't support it. What I saw in the video in Step 2.5 is fascinating, it gives lots of opportunities to foster independent learning and to improve teacher's productivity. I was lucky to have a look at various learning designs in  Blended Learning Essentials Moodle Hub , I even used one of them (Social Media Level 1) in my class (without VLE, just using Google services and Twitter). 3) sharing and re-using t...

I took Blended Learning: Getting Started MOOC on FutureLearn last year and as I learnt a lot of useful things which helped me with my teaching I decided to find out more for better understanding of the subject matter and seeing greater opportunities to enhance the process of learning a foreign language with the help of digital technologies. This is what I'm taking with me from Week 1 of the course. After being reminded about the benefits of blended learning and some information on data analytics we looked at how blended learning can be designed effectively using a tool called The Learning Designer by UCL. The Learning Designer is a tool to help teachers and lecturers design teaching and learning activities and share their learning designs with each other. It was developed by a team led by Diana Laurillard (the Educator on this course) at the UCL Knowledge Lab and is free for anyone to use. The tool is based on the six learning types from Diana Laurillard’s Conversa...

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1. Understanding learning theories (which have a big influence on how we learn and how our education is structured) The Web, social media and smartphones have led to a blurring of the boundaries between the formal and informal, the professional and the personal situations of learning. That's why we need to assess the relevance of these different learning theories to teaching and learning in the network age. Behaviouralism (with instructional teaching approach)  is best suited to topics where there are ‘right and wrong’ answers and for people with extremely good memories. A teacher acts as an expert. Cognitive constructivism suggests that actively discovering new information by individually doing things will lead to the construction of knowledge inside our brain. This approac is known as Experiential and the teacher acts as a guide, not as ‘the expert’. This approach is dependent on the existing knowledge of the learner (their current mental maps), which cannot alwa...

"Digital tools and mobile devices are perfect resources for breaking down the walls of the classroom, gathering immediate feedback on learning, and sharing learning in social media communities". - Great point made in this article about digital exit cards https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-media-exit-cards-matt-levinson?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow And I do agree that for the teacher "the key is how to get the learning to spill out of the classroom and continue the conversation".

Storify  allows you to collect media across the different social networks and apply your own narrative to your story, which you can then share with others. Whether you want to use it to share collections of resources with your students with additional guidance, or as a class project to encourage them to build their own narrative, Storify offers an interesting way to organise information from sites like Twitter into what matters to your class. Best of all it’s free to use. From http://www.blendedmec.com/