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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

applications have grown out of the need for people to connect together, share experiences and knowledge, enhance their experiences and open up new possibilities in learning. We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students. van Dijk, J.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. Deborah Everhart (Georgetown University, USA) followed, with a session on social bookmarking, using Blackboard MLE tools. Kept us on our toes.

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December's BIG QUESTION!!! Part I

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Many new and simple feed readers became available for loading my RSS feeds , and open source wikis simply blew the doors of possibility wide open. is experimenting inside Second Life with ways for companies to foster more collaborative learning methods. learning consultant Brent T. Tiddlywiki is just so darn cool.