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

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The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995.

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Edupunk stalks the institution.

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There has been much rhetoric over how academics are increasingly disenchanted with institutional VLE provision and are subscribing to a 'doing it yourself' approach. Students are also voting with their feet, with many preferring to use social networking tools such as Facebook to communicate in place of the institutional e-mail system.

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Top 7 topics at this year's ALT-C

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Social Software 25 VLEs 24 Blogs 20 Mobile learning 19 Social networking 18 Wikis 16 No surprises really. It interested me to see that some key topics have emerged as the front runners for discussion. A quick trawl of titles and keywords revealed these top 7 favourite topics: e-Learning 31 Web 2.0

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