Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003) who views the Web as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Essentially, the Web has become more social. geotagging).

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Social Networks Web Wiki Change 77

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. Debate centres upon whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. Essentially, the Web has become more social.

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Wiki Social Networks Education Change 89

Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. That is, the technologies that dominated educational technology in the 1970s were technologies that were primarily teacher controlled and oriented toward instruction. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

A second example relates to a series of courses I developed between 2003 and 2005 with a colleague of mine called David Kori. And, of course, this principle is massively extended online as users collaborate to create folksonomies to sort the millions of items to be found in flickr, del.icio.us, YouTube and endless other sites.

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