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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories?

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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

There is also evidence that learning communities informally decide their own priorities, often observed in the emerging folksonomies that result when digital content is organised, shared and curated. Most are the result of informal learning, achieved outside and beyond the walls of the traditional education environment.

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Many encounters

Learning with e's

Started the morning off having breakfast with Informal Learning guru Jay Cross in the lounge of the K-West hotel, in Kensington, West London. 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.

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More rogue.

Janet Clarey

Back in 2005, Stephen Downes had some comments on formalizing informal learning based on a CLO article. Respect your learners intentions and make informal learning resources available and useful. Earlier this year Mark Oehlert, in response to a George Siemens post about “formally adopting&# informal learning (vs.

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kowabunga dude!

The Learning Circuits

but what struck me as worth blogging about was that i rediscovered this resource through practicing one of the first forms of informal learning that the internet spawned - web surfing. (thus the power of bookmarking services like blinklist , de.licio.us , and the like.) back in the barbaric dark ages of web 1.0

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

Doesn’t always help you meet a specific learning objective. folksonomy rather than standardization. Jane Bozarth: @Ronny Lohuis Learners don’t necessarily define themselves as “learners&# or as being in the act of “learning&#. Posted in Informal Learning, Workplace Learning.