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The changing Web

Learning with e's

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. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Yesterday's post can be found at this link.

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Learning System Awards #11 to #20 (2023)

eLearning 24-7

I bet that is the first time you have seen a mashup between music from Hair (great musical, bad movie) and a holiday tune. Well, one is aware, because I announced it via LinkedIn, but everyone else? If you want the longer version, you can review past criteria, mash it up, and extract key details. Let the sunshine in.

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The Top Five Ingredients for a Perfect Training Recipe

Litmos

There’s something for everyone — turkey, mashed potatoes, veggies and – of course — pumpkin pie. Just as a good pumpkin pie isn’t made only of pumpkin and Thanksgiving dinner is more than just turkey, a well-rounded training program isn’t made up of just one thing either. Oh, Thanksgiving dinner. Not following? Stay with me.

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

Learning with e's

Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. These were posted up onto the group wiki, and a short summary attached by the ‘gold miner’ to explain what it contained and why it would be useful.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. Prediction #6 => More Examples of Mashups and Add-ons to Extend Simple Self-Paced eLearning Prediction #5 is a slam dunk.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a December 2011 issue of Business Insider, the mobile apps analytics firm Distimo said many popular apps were games such as Angry Birds, social networking such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter, and other content such as Google Maps and iBooks. C-suite positions will also draw from an additional 46 million Gen Xers.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

Traditionally, the Semantic Web is associated with semantic technologies (Gaevi, Jovanovi, & Devedi, 2007 ). collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. techniques (e.g.