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In the mix:
A Critical Exploration
of Blended Learning
Steve Wheeler
@SteveWheeler

What’s in the blend?
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1983: Flexible, Open Learning

Image source: http://www.masterlink.com/blog
“This is for everyone”1989: “This is for everyone”

1995: University of the Second Chance
Photo by The Open University

Face to Face Distance
Traditional Contemporary
Synchronous Asynchronous
Teacher led Learner led
Analogue Digital
Tethered Mobile
Local Remote
Individual Collaborative
Graphic concept by Steve Wheeler

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Photo by Steve Wheeler
Mobile Culture

Students taking notes
Photo: Lori Cullen

Digital Cultural Capital
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“Where digital
communication has
fractured the tyranny of
distance, and computers
have become pervasive and
ubiquitous, identification
through digital mediation
has become the new
cultural capital”.
Wheeler (2009)
Membership
of ‘the Tribe’’
Digital Cultural Capital

Social Media gives everyone
a voice in the community
Source: http://www.uksmallbusinesswebsites.co.uk

Learning
2.0
Tools
Collaborating
Sharing
Voting
Networking
User
generated
content
The architecture of participation
Tagging
Graphic concept by Steve Wheeler

We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com

Learning by Listening
Instructionism
Wheeler, S. (2015) adapted from Brown, M. (2015)
Learning by Doing
Constructivism
Learning by Making
Constructionism
Learning by Sharing
Connectivism

Learning by listening
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Personal windows on the world
Photo by Steve Wheeler

Learning by doing (Piaget, 1950)
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Learning by solving problems
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76966777@N07/10580002834/

Learning by making (Papert, 1960)
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Teacher led or student led?
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Learning is in the strugglePhoto by Olga Guryanova on Unsplash.com

Un able
Questions

Beyond my reach
What I can learn with help
(ZPD)
ZPD and scaffolding
What I can
learn on my
own
Technology and toolsKnowledgeable others
Graphic concept by Steve Wheeler

Julius Yego – Gold Medal, Javelin (World Championships, 2015)
Image source: Wikimedia Commons

Today’s learners are...
• more self-directed
• better equipped to capture information
• more reliant on feedback from peers
• more inclined to collaborate
• more oriented toward being their own
“nodes of production”.
Education Trends | Featured News
John K. Waters—13 December 2011
http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

Paragogy
See: Corneli, J. (2012) Paragogical Praxis, E-Learning and Digital Media, 9(3), 267-272
Paragogy reflects a critical
study of the practice of
peer-learning. Paragogy
addresses the challenge of
peer-production a useful
and supportive context for
self-directed learning, based
on connections between
peers in the digital era.
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Flipping the classroom?

See: http://www.steve-wheeler.co.uk/2014/03/flipping-teacher.html
Graphic by Max Brown

http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/
Learning by teaching

Self organised learning
For successful self organised learning the essential components are:
• Communication
• Reflection
• Collaboration
• Community
• Creative Tools
• Amplification

Self Organising Learning Environments
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RhizomesDeleuze &
Guattari (1980)
Anarchy of the Web
The nomadic nature of
knowledge and identity

“...multiple, non-
hierarchical entry
and exit points in
data
representation and
interpretation.”
- Cormier (2010)
Rhizomatic learning
http://archbold-station.org

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8227/8397808475_d7554a5c62_z.jpg
C
X
Massive
Open
Online
Courses
Embedded MOOCs
(Supplemental or Self-
Blended Learning)

"I not only
use all the
brains that I
have,
but all that I
can borrow.”
Woodrow
Wilson

http://bradley.chattablogs.com
“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom
for collecting knowledge… through collecting people”.
- Karen Stephenson
Connectivism
Paragogy Heutagogy

Crowdsourcing Learning:
Building a PLNPhoto by Steve Wheeler

“This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the
wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that
the network itself is smart; it’s that the
individuals get smarter because they’re
connected to the network.” – Steven Johnson
http://xdem.free.fr/uploaded_images/ParisInRiots_Gonzales-741204.jpg

Connected Pedagogy

Thank you
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