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Networked noughties 2000-2002

Learning with e's

The last 10 years will be known as the networked decade. Sure, previous years saw the telephone, CB radio, television, the Web and e-mail, but this decade was the one when social networking came of age, and where unprecendented access to vast storehouses of knowledge became common place for millions across the globe.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

The web is constantly changing. Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, Web 2.0 The Web is constantly changing, but it is also a change agent. geotagging).

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

CourseArc

In addition to essential information on meeting Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the book also dives into how accessible content can ensure that all learners receive the best learning experience. With the first edition published in 2002, this book from Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Luke Hobson’s podcast.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 or the ‘social web’. As my starting point I want to examine the phenomenon that is Web 2.0

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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

Learning with e's

Ivan Illich hoped for a time when the transmission model of education, or ''funnels'', would be replaced by ''educational webs'' - his notion of what we now recognise as social networks. I wrote a post about the contrast between educational funnels and webs in 2011. What would Illich have made of the social web?

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

Learning with e's

Highlighting the fast paced nature of the web, Thomas and Seely-Brown (2011) suggest that peer learning can be both timely yet transient. User generated content has also attracted criticism over issues of mediocrity, lack of accuracy and superficial scholarship (Brabazon, 2002; 2007). References Brabazon, T.

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Networked noughties 2003-2005

Learning with e's

Yesterday I mapped the significant technological events of the years 2000-2002. The launch of one of the first social networking services Friends Reunited in 2000 paved the ways for a welter of new social networking tools which would revolutionise the way people connected, communicated and shared. What would 2006 bring?