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4 reasons to use Creative Commons

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This raises a number of tensions around creativity, intellectual property and copyright. Creative Commons (CC) is a copyright management system that goes a long way to addressing these issues. Teachers in all education sectors trade in knowledge and content. This is why I'm opposed to closed journals. Unported License.

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Excavating knowledge

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His development of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) represented a model to describe the efforts and interaction between a learner and a more knowledgeable other person (MKO) to negotiate meaning together with the learner, within an achievable range of learning. As ever, I invite readers to exchange their views in the comments box below.

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Opening up #learning: Access to knowledge

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Here's the first: Access to knowledge. Putnam's view of the Internet is similar to many other educators - it has provided unprecedented access to the world's knowledge. Putnam's view of the Internet is similar to many other educators - it has provided unprecedented access to the world's knowledge. Unported License.

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Curiosity, cognition and content

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Image from Wikimedia Commons Where does knowledge come from? As teachers we trade in knowledge on a daily basis, but how often do we think about its provenance? Yet for me, the most important question of all, when attempting to understand the true nature of knowledge, is to ask the question why? Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineo Product Knowledge E-Learning Webinar

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Monday, July 13, 2009 Kineo Product Knowledge E-Learning Webinar Kineo will be holding a free webinar on creating effective product knowledge e-learning on July 16th, 2009. Product knowledge training creates major challenge for organizations, including: Keeping content up to date: products change rapidly. United States License.

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Dialogue, debate and destinations

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In my own keynote speech the following morning, speaking to an audience of around 200 library and information professionals, I argued that libraries need to become more flexible and agile (and indeed many already are), to respond to new learning practices, and an increased interest in knowledge and research. Unported License.

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All just a click away?

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All knowledge, all learning, anything you want to know - can be found online. If knowledge is now so easy to come by, and we no longer have to strive to find it, do we still understand what we discover? Are we able to contextualise and critically evaluate knowledge if we find it online? Everything is just one click away.

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