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The changing Web

Learning with e's

remains a contested label for new and emergent properties that are found on the Web. Debate focuses on whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). geotagging).

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. One of the best theories to describe how learning is organised in Web 2.0

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

I will then speculate on the current changes in practice that might emerge, both for the institution and the teacher. This is a contested label for new and emergent properties that are found on the Web. Debate centres upon whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf.

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

sessions, which came under the heading of 'Emerging New Media and technology'. Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. I'm thinking about the Web 2.0 I hope to see you there.

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Taskonomies: Why beer and diapers go well together

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I also love the idea of Folksonomies instead of taxonomies. I think the idea of user, or group generated tagging and organization is VERY closely related to taskonomy. And some even put beer next to the diapers, so that when a shopper makes a late night, emergency trip to get more diapers, why there is the beer, temptingly convenient.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making. Tags: Convergence.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

Current definitions: Microlearning emerges from microcontent. folksonomy rather than standardization. Tags: Informal Learning Workplace Learning Janet Clarey learntrends. Microcontent is little bits of digital information in a permanent state of flux and circulation. No repository (unless you view the whole web as a repository).