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Academic Twitter And Professional Learning: Myths And Realities, Muireann Okeeffe
Academic Twitter And Professional Learning: Myths And Realities, Muireann Okeeffe
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Social networking sites provide opportunities for informal and social learning of academic practices in higher education, yet not all academics engage in these spaces. This qualitative study suggests that while Twitter offers informal opportunities for academi development, inhibiting factors prevent staff from establishing their social presence and participating in conversations on academic Twitter.
International Collaboration In Blended Problem-Based Learning, Roisin Donnelly
International Collaboration In Blended Problem-Based Learning, Roisin Donnelly
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European education today is characterized by two dominant trends. First, e-learning has made impressive advances in the past five years. Second, European higher education has become increasingly internationalized. Within this, there has been an obvious shift towards more social, collaborative and communal perspectives of learning reported in recent educational research. Various forms of collaborative and inquiry-based learning include the idea that learning should be understood as a combination of participation, knowledge creation and internal processes. This paper discusses the blending of e-learning and problem-based learning (PBL), based on these observations and as a comprehensive approach encompassing the learning environment, curriculum, …