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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

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). One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit.

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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.' 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. geotagging). and Purdon, M.

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

Blogs rely not only on content, but on users, and ultimately on the dialogue that ensues between all those who read the content. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0

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Up Pompey

Learning with e's

I hope to explore some of the possibilities and potential of tools such as blogs, wikis, microblogs and aggregators, and will also explore mashups, social tagging, and concepts such as 'wisdom of crowds' and folksonomies. tools Emma Duke-Williams wiki Cloud Learning Environment.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

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. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006.

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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) The years associated with Wiki suggest it was more discussed a couple years ago and now is discussed less. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005