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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

Unusually, the architect hadn't designed any pedestrian paths into his plan. Instead of imposing his own ideas onto the community, the architect had crowd sourced his design. I recently heard a story about the building of a new university campus. Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Semantic-enhanced learning designs in multimedia-enhanced learning.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

We therefore designed a number of activities for the wiki. Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit.

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Many encounters

Learning with e's

tools (I demonstrated the wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and social tagging through a number of 'get out of your seat' activities which seemed to go down well) and problem based learning. We arrived together (I have shared taxi cabs with Jay Cross and Paul Clarke on the same day and in two separate European cities - how about that?)

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

50 ways to become a better designer - Computer Arts. What is design? Design is both the process and the final product of an endeavour to fulfil a personal or professional brief. Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

Like it's sibling, usability, findability is a responsibility that often falls between the cracks and is often not properly addressed by authors, designers or engineers. The alternative, of course, is a bottom-up effort whereby users apply their own tags to online content, evolving in the process what are now commonly known as folksonomies.

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More rogue.

Janet Clarey

How about this…the principles of ID can’t handle it, IDs aren’t taught how to design with it, no one knows how to assess its impact and yet we feel compelled to somehow exert our control over something that largely grew up because we failed so miserably in other areas…. What’s your take?