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

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Military students for example may be serving overseas, or in submarines. Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. Wheeler, S. Wheeler (Ed.)

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Wisdom of clouds

Learning with e's

There were many people at a session titled " the VLE is Dead " hosted by James Clay, Josie Fraser, Graham Attwell, Nick Sharratt and Steve Wheeler aka Timbuckteeth :). Martin Weller blogged about the death of VLE/LMS too in Nov 2007. Martin's prediction about a move towards loosely coupled teaching tools has examples in practice today.

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