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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with e's

And perhaps your social presence, if you know how to invoke it. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. All you have is your voice.

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Engaging online learners 2

Learning with e's

This activity is a phase 1 activity and involves minimum social interchange. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Wheeler, S.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Firstly.the Social Web connects people together At Plymouth University, we very quickly began to explore the ways Social Web tools could support our students.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

He had read some of my previous papers, and was interested in seeing if we could take our ideas forward in the emerging area of social media and medical education. We published eight papers in total, and each in its own way informed us of where we should focus next on our exploration of social media, smartphones and other allied technology.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

While there’s a lot of overlap between “social learning” and these enterprise 2.0 collaborative tools, they actually have different goals: Social learning is about interacting with other people in order to learn something new, while Web collaboration tools are primarily about making it easier for people to work together.

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Map to the Internet Time Ecosystem

Jay Cross

For example, we’d walk through the Informal Learning blog to look at an RSS feed, an internal search engine, scanning the 100 most recent posts, a Creative Commons license, and so on. Two years ago, the focus was on how to apply social software for learning. The focus of my workshops is shifting, too.

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