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Doing and knowing

Learning with e's

Thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that Saipan is an island in the Marianas, south of Japan, and that it is a part of the Commonwealth of the US, with a population of close to 50,000 people. It takes only a few seconds to cross reference these facts with another website. References Brabazon, T. Ed: 2013) Knowmad Society.

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Share trading

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The arrival of Creative Commons licensing made free sharing a more attractive proposition for everyone. As van Dijk (2013) has proposed, the ready acceptance of Facebook and other social media into the every day lives of a global population of users ensured that the ethos of sharing became second nature. Reference Castells, M.

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Is the ivory tower crumbling?

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That portion grew to 47% by 2013. Rarely do scholars refer to 32 percent of the peer-reviewed articles in the social and 27 percent in the natural sciences. What if talented and knowledgeable lay-people had been excluded from contributing to Wikipedia? Photo by Tom Murphy on Wikimedia Commons Is the ivory tower crumbling?

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Shifting sands

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Education premised on this philosophy has been commonly referred to as the ''factory model'' because of its parallels to industrialised working, which included batchprocessing, rationalisation of resources, synchronised behaviour and homogenisation of product. We can no longer afford to teach in the same ways as we were taught.