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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

The same might be said about the way communities form, create their preferred ways of communication and decide their priorities. Dave Cormier - one of the foremost contributors to rhizomatic learning theory - takes this concept deeper into digital territory by equating rhizomatic learning to 'community as curriculum'.

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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. Debate focuses on whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. The web is constantly changing.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

or the ‘social web’. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. Essentially, the Web has become more social.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

This is nicely facilitated by Social Web technologies (e.g. blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

One of the central premises of the book is that findability (the ease with which information can be found by its audience) is an essential ingredient in any strategy for online communication. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

That's the power of the social network. All you are doing by advocating that Twitter groups are not necessary is imposing a structure upon the social web that should not be imposed. We want folksonomy not heirarchy. But both have the same underlying principle that people can connect and communicate using them.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

folksonomy rather than standardization. Very few companies have strategy for social media–many say it won’t work in their culture. Control of these infrastructures and services presuppose a signifcant level of economic enfranchisement and social integration, and technical and communicative competency.&#.