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The changing Web

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This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. More on this in future posts on this blog. The web is constantly changing.

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Semantic technologies and learning

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blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. 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. Yet, students are also content creators.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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social web) tools in teacher education for the last two years and have attempted to qualify their use in a number of areas of learner support including shared online spaces (Wheeler et al, 2008) and blogs (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0

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