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The changing Web

Learning with e's

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' 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. More on this in future posts on this blog.

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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

I blogged about some of the new theories that seem appropriate as explanatory frameworks for learning in a digital age. How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 social web) tools in teacher education for the last two years and have attempted to qualify their use in a number of areas of learner support including shared online spaces (Wheeler et al, 2008) and blogs (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008).

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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. 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. Unported License.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

For example, when I view my blog's content through the eLearning Learning lens , it shows me that relative to other sources of content in the system, I tend to talk about: eLearning 2.0 (130) I often will use this technique when I run into a new company to see if anyone is blogging about it and generally what is associated with it.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

Of course, what I write on my blog is not institutionally checked, which is different to a publication in a scientific journal which may go through two blind peer reviews. Today everybody talks about Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is very interesting as it attracts a wide variety of people from teenagers to older people.