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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

This is nicely facilitated by Social Web technologies (e.g. blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. To perform this analysis, it is first important to define the concept of semantic technologies. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Essentially, the Web has become more social. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0 has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. 2002) The Network Society.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

In this paper, having revisited my previous speeches I''m going to try to gaze once more into the near future in an attempt to determine what education might look like in the light of the technological developments that comprise Web 2.0. Essentially, the Web has become more social. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

When you look at the keywords on the left you see things like: Social Learning (356) Social Media (411) Twitter (725) Google Wave (22) Camtasia (76) Adobe Captivate (71) Social Network (460) Now, the content set in this case are highly skewed towards innovators as compared to the topic sets being used by my past analysis (training conferences).

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

What might a PKM program in your organization look like, and how can it leverage social networking tools? This panel shows how individuals and organizations are successfully implementing and gaining value from a PKM strategy that includes social networking tools. Want to see the best in Enterprise 2.0

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December's BIG QUESTION!!! Part I

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

A consortium of corporate training folks from Wal-Mart Stores, American Express, Intel, and more than 200 other companies, organized by learning and technology think tank The MASIE Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., BusinessWeek also quoted me for part of their series on SecondLife in an article called My Virtual Life. That's always fun! "