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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Cliqset -social web service that helps users share and discover content and discuss it with other users. Mashups Possibilities.

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Remix culture and education

Learning with e's

Sometimes several works are combined or 'mashed up' to create new versions. In the digital age, where many have access to the participatory web such as social media, it is easier than ever to remix and mashup content. We see or hear something we like, and we try to make our own personal version of it.

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

Learning with e's

Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Firstly.the Social Web connects people together At Plymouth University, we very quickly began to explore the ways Social Web tools could support our students.

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The Business Web

Tony Karrer

This is something I've pointed to before: Promise of Web 2.0 Simultaneously, companies like Google and Yahoo have announced their intention to compete against Microsoft Exchange by offering a version of their consumer email services repurposed for business. The Business Web. And, it's only starting.

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3 Essential Themes for Mobile Learning Systems

Upside Learning

This is where the rubber meets the road, by dreaming up features we invent the mLearning systems future right here. Semantic – while most of the features Upside2Go offers are in the realm of Web 2.0 services, we see that there is scope for slowly bringing in Web 3.0 Take with a liberal pinch of salt please. technologies.

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Confused? Welcome to the Learning System World of 2024

eLearning 24-7

The Bore Factor – as in professors, teachers, heavily (in some cases, all the time) on the screen using a web conference solution (edtech often refers to it as a digital classroom) and talking. How If you end up with 720, you still pay for the 1,000. There The second? How engaged is that? That This makes no sense to me.

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Surprises so Far in 2023

eLearning 24-7

Nowadays I think that the gig is up, and everyone realizes the scam. Part of the issue is that Techsmith, isn’t great at pushing it beyond their web site, and the other issue is folks are unaware. If you have to spell out the name, to find it on the web, that’s an issue. Nice meals. And the list goes on.

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