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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students. van Dijk, J. Wheeler, S.,

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Semantic technologies and learning

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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. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.