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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006).

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study.

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Networked noughties 2006-2009

Learning with e's

March 2006 was the year I first began to take an interest in Web 2.0 article: Wikis, blogs and podcasts. 2006 saw the launch of Twitter - now one of the most popular live status update tools worldwide. Tags: YouTube Nintendo Wii Twitter FaceBook. and social networks as potentially useful educational tools.

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Understanding Web 2.0

Integrated Learnings

in 1999, followed by Tim O'Reilly in 2004, and then the 2006 Time magazine article Person of the Year - "You". And finally, knowledge centric networks like Wikipedia and other wikis use information as an impetus for social networking. Tags: Wiki Social Network Twitter Web 2.0 Wikipedia has a write up on Web 2.0

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A Pharmaceutical Leveraging Web 2.0 --In a Big Way

Kapp Notes

Pfizer, the world's largest research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company, with its corporate headquarters located in New York, created Pfizerpedia (based loosely on Wikipedia ) in 2006 and has been leveraging the interactive-community-based tool ever since. tags: web_2.0 as shown in the slideshow below.)

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Learning with 'e's: Mashing it up

Learning with e's

Wiki Blog Space Mashups: Combining Web 2.0 tools to create collaborative and reflective learning spaces Recently teachers have used wikis, blogs and other open architecture Web tools to encourage student interaction (Richardson, 2006). Less is known about how wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 In this paper, Web 2.0

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