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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

Soon, over a period of time, as students and staff walked between the buildings, they made their own tracks through the grass. Once these tracks had become established as the most natural and preferred routes, the architect ordered the builders in to pave over the tracks.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

And now, because of eLearning Learning , I have a much better way to track these things over a much more interesting content sets. Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content.

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, I added the hashtag #moocplym for good measure so we could track the conversation across the community.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

If you’re into meta-learning, you should track what’s going on there. Vander Wal, who coined the term “folksonomy,” focuses on the huge untapped potential for social tools with discussions about making it easier for enterprise social tool adoption, tagging, getting tools to mesh, modifying Web 2.0

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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.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking is a better way to save the websites and online resources you want to keep track of. BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”). TLDR: If you’re short on time grab this quick start guide to social bookmarking. What is Social Bookmarking?

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

And by arranging tracks into playlists I can create any number of new catageories of my own choosing. And, of course, this principle is massively extended online as users collaborate to create folksonomies to sort the millions of items to be found in flickr, del.icio.us, YouTube and endless other sites.