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Stuart Crabb of Facebook #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

Facebook didn’t invent that, just created a great tool. He’s using Facebook timeline to tell the story). 1970 Marshall McLuhan ‘the medium is the message’ 1995 The Internet 2004 Facebook and the social graph – the social layer of the internet which allows people to connect and share. Who is Facebook? It’s not new.

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Lost in the crowd?

Learning with e's

In his book 2004 ' Distraction ', author Mark Curtis argued that our sense of self - or personal identity - can become confused or challenged when we habitually use digital technology. Our immersion in media, he argues, provides us with a myriad of alternative role models we can adopt or adapt. Do you have any thoughts on this?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). Maramba, I.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

This idea sways the balance of power between experts and non-experts, between teachers and students everywhere, because it rejects the privileged role of former knowledge mediators and contradicts the traditional idea that knowledge can only be generated by certified experts. when Tim O’Reilly coined the term in 2004.

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Free e-Learning books

eFront

Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). Because I watch YouTube videos, have a Facebook, and text doesn’t mean I expect you to use those to train me at work). Codrington, G. Generation comparisons. ? Debard, R.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55 to 65 year old women. Links to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin accounts right in the LMS, so the user signs in, and it is now working in the system. 2004 3rd edition. The idea that only 20 somethings, are interested in this feature is plain nonsense. It is that amazing. Bottom Line.