We've now reached the final week of the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC with the last of the seven "e-affordances". This time it is the turn of differentiated learning, also known as differentiated instruction, is an approach to learning and teaching th...More

We are now at the penultimate stage of the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC with the sixth of the seven “e-affordances” being introduced, that of metacognition. Metacognition is often defined as "thinking about thinking", which rather over-simplifies wha...More

The fifth of the seven "e-affordances" is introduced in week 6 of the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC. It is the turn of collaborative intelligence which describes a process whereby knowledge is co-created and co-produced by a collective of individuals...More

Week 5 of the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC takes us to the fourth of the seven “e-affordances”. This time we are looking at the notion of recursive feedback - this is suggestive of feedback that is timely and can include continuous machine-mediated...More

We are now into week 4, half-way through the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC, and the third of the seven "e-affordances" has been introduced: multimodal meaning- which draws upon a variety of literacies, such as multiliteracy, visual literacy, informat...More

Week 3 of the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC now draws its attention to the second of the seven "e-affordances": active knowledge making. I am reminded by a comment made by Dr William Cope at the beginning of the course where he notes that some of thes...More

The week 2 block on the e-Learning Ecologies MOOC introduces the first of the seven "e-affordances": ubiquitous learning. Ubiquitous? Because it suggests learning that is "anytime, anyplace, anywhere" (older readers may recall that this was the ma...More

As the title of the week 1 block suggests, it's about conceptualising learning, and what a stellar cast of philosophers, educators and practitioners we have: Confucius (c.500 BC), Aristotle (c.350 BC), St. Benedict (1949, [c.530AD]), Jean-Jacques...More