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Insight: Learner journeys need to become seamless

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I'm not convinced this is anything to do with 'learner journeys', more a continuation of the experiences they have come to expect in their everyday interactions with Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and the like. Easy access' means you log in once and once only as you move from site to site. enabled content management tool.

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Making the case for content curation

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But perhaps most significantly, curation is realised through the algorithms of search engines such as Google and Bing, which, in theory at least, provide users with search listings ordered by relevance. It can also be achieved by the ratings and comments that users apply to books, videos, music and other media.

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Cases in custom content development: tentative suggestion 2 - never regard a job as finished

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The development of the Google search engine, Facebook or iTunes are not projects, they are never-ending quests for perfection. Once you've shifted this mindset, course maintenance ceases to be an annoying waste of resources and manifests itself instead as an exciting process of continuous improvement.

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So what is software worth?

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Google Docs and Spreadsheets (formerly Writely), for word processing and the suchlike. In fact, most of the applications that I have had to purchase are engineered to quite unnecessary levels and intimidating to learn. Then along came open source and a host of freebie applications, supported by advertising.