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Twitter and the death of distance

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Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time.

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Yesterday's blog post

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But it is probably still true that you are only as good as your last journal article, book, or conference presentation. My Teaching with Twitter post from January 2009 is still going strong with 12,000 views. This is a little different to publishing a paper based journal article or book. What do you think? Unported License.

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Our viral web

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YouTube, Twitter and the rest of the social media family were quickly unundated with comments and views. The next day I posted his picture onto my Flickr account and licenced it under Creative Commons for free sharing and re-use. Subsequently others loaded it up in several versions to Wikimedia Commons. Unported License.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67. The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student generated content as a collaborative learning tool, British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995. digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0

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How free is open? #EDENchat

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Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. 7) Are closed journals sustainable and are open access journals the future? EDENchat by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 How free is open?

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Cut and thrust

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Ford's argument is that currently, much of the cut and thrust of educational practice is played out on Twitter, Facebook, in blogs and other public online spaces. My own blog has been cited by the Irish Education Minister, while another, the US Secretary of State for Education, Arne Duncan follows my personal Twitter account.

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Community really is the curriculum

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This all happened because of Facebook and Twitter - tools the e-learning community uses with exceptional effect across the globe to keep in touch and share ideas. I don't publish much in conventional journals anymore, and neither admitted Stephen, does he. He actually made a profound comment about this. Unported License.