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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. Tags: Customer Communities Social Networks Web 2.0

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. Blogs rely not only on content, but on users, and ultimately on the dialogue that ensues between all those who read the content. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0 Essentially, where Web 1.0

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

Many domains require very advanced content, where different concepts and processes require the use of multimedia (e.g. Yet, students are also content creators. Besides being able to author, publish, discover, and use high-quality learning objects, it is equally important to use multimedia-rich learning objects. techniques (e.g.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

In each case, these are crude in that they look only at what terms people are using in a given content set. And now, because of eLearning Learning , I have a much better way to track these things over a much more interesting content sets. This works across any subset of the content including sources, keywords and arbitrary searches.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

One of the greatest changes (and challenges) for education over the last few years has been the proliferation of user generated content. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging).

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

Introducing DITA learning and training content specialization. The second session was a presentation on DITA, an XML architecture that gives semantic structure to your content. It will allow you to structure, organize, reuse and deliver your content. was about publishing, content could be read and shared.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

The essential premise underpinning the use of any Social Web application is that over a period of time it genuinely becomes self-supporting, and that the students will enjoy the freedom to produce their own content and study pathways. Retrieved 7 February, 2014. van Dijk, J. The Network Society. London: Sage. Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P.

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