Slides from my talk at the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows World Summit 2018 in Halifax, NS, May 2018. In this I discuss the motivational strengths and weaknesses of self-paced courses for both learners and teachers, and ways that the Landing has helped limit the weaknesses. Central to the ways it does this are persistence, boundary crossing, and social embedding- teachers become learners, learners become teachers, and the environment itself evolves to teach. Learning becomes persistently visible, beyond its original context and community, and the opportunities for social learning constantly expand.
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Hi Jon,
I'm getting a 0 byte file whenever I try to download this.
Hi Jon,
I am having the same problem with the file.
Terrible network problems, sorry - if this fails, try https://t.co/lPcC8U73Qq - works for me.
Jon,
I was able to access thepresentation at last.
I really enjoyed it and appreciated the informal nature of the presentation, which seemed really appropriate to talking about a learning environment that learns.
I found this piece earlier this week. I was struck by (and related to) the description of teachers has typically very little autonomy.