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The changing Web

Learning with e's

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. More on this in future posts on this blog.

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

Learning with e's

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Using two-person blogs, students were encouraged to regularly write their reflections on professional practice directly to their blog.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

to describe the components involved: Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signaling. Then write something on it, like What’s causing your customers pain, and how should it be fixed? Andrew McAfee defines it using the acronym S.L.A.T.E.S. Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen defined Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. I need you to give me a one-page wish list of the capabilities you require from social software to make the most of social learning and carry out your vision of what we need to do.”

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Breaking eggs

Learning with e's

My chapter appears in an edited volume by Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. It is a solid reference manual for best practice of social software tools in teaching and learning. Image source Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with 'e's: The 5th Plymouth e-Learning Conference

Learning with e's

Josie Fraser is well known in the field of social media and learning, and writes regularly about her research on her blog SocialTech. Josie spreads her time and energy across a wide variety of social media/networking spaces, where she can be found experimenting with all manner of emerging technologies.

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Wiki working

Learning with e's

I published two journal articles recently on the use of wikis in teaching and learning, and I'm making them available here on this blog. The second article was written from the same data, but this time with the emphasis on the use of wikis to promote quality academic writing. It was published in Learning, Media and Technology journal.

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