Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2013

How might we begin to understand the issues surrounding folksonomies, peer learning, or collaborative informal learning that seem to occur spontaneously, outside the classroom, spanning the entire globe - using old theories that were written to describe what happens in a classroom? I will be interested in your views. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Better they create their own pathways', he said, 'than for me build them, and then for them not be used'. The same might be said about the way communities form, create their preferred ways of communication and decide their priorities. Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. Photo by Steve Wheeler The architecture of learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 using a similar explanatory framework.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

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. Their task would be to create a new wiki page, and begin to populate it with resources related to MOOCs. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

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. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In the summary of the article, I suggested that the distinct differences between the two types of learning are mostly based on how learners are changing the ways they interact, and their increased ability to create, share and organise their own learning. Learning 2.0 Where Learning 1.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students. Photo by Felix Burton on Wikimedia Commons The survival of higher education (2): Changing times by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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