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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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The Emperor's new clothes?

Learning with e's

contention is that every (yes, every) benefit of the institutional VLE for the learner can be obtained elsewhere with a little thought, using combinations of other information and communication technology tools which are freely and publicly available and already transparent to the target learner.

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Edupunk stalks the institution.

Learning with e's

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.