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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

image, sound, and video) to provide students with a better understanding of concepts under study. refers to this phenomenon as “fluidity among the modalities,” where many new modalities will come in addition to the more frequently used ones - text, video, voice, and image. Spector ( 2009 ) of Google Inc. techniques (e.g.

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

This facet was explained very clearly in Michael Wesch's excellent video Web 2.0. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. As far as Tim O'Reilly is concerned, Web 2.0

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The changing Web

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My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006).

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

I watched his video just now and it is a must see for everybody who works in corporate e-Learning. And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. He made a video on Web 2.0 Shortly after he made this video he changed to way he taught (he is a professor).

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies. Record video, get code, then play it on the web. To get the original page, cut away the first part of the link. The Internet is Boring.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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Web 2.0 (..)

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