Learning with e's

MARCH 31, 2012

This came on the back of reports late in 2011 that the online store Amazon was now selling more Kindle and e-book versions than paper based. The conversation around online encyclopedias inevitably led us to discuss Wikipedia and its relevance in academic study. Was this a trend that was a threat to the library? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I read Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger's blog with interest this week. John Seely-Brown and Doug Thomas (2011) have argued that the majority of school experiences are mechanistic and need to be better contextualised. 2011) A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. References Gerver, R.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2015

It''s just letters and numbers, there is no meaning save that which we give it as a community over time. ds106 has become a rich, distributed, and emergent international online community that happens to run as a class sometimes at UMW. But scores of people continue to make that community so remarkable. ds106 is people!

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