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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

Instead of imposing his own ideas onto the community, the architect had crowd sourced his design. The same might be said about the way communities form, create their preferred ways of communication and decide their priorities. How often do we impose pathways upon students which do not meet their needs, or fit their expectations?

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Next generation learning

Learning with e's

Social media are enabling learners everywhere to connect and work together with each other, forming convenient communities and networks of shared interest. has seen as shift toward user generated content, and the emergent property of folksonomies. The full power of the Learning 2.0 Where Learning 1.0 Learning 3.0

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

This content is generated not only by the experts, but also increasingly by the learners themselves, and tends to be organised by the community rather than by the experts. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

Current definitions: Microlearning emerges from microcontent. folksonomy rather than standardization. Pathway to community; you have to be embedded in the community to help. Complex communities of practice where individual identity is constructed. Discussion of Communities of Practice vs. Networks.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

I responded (as you do) with my own version: "A folksonomist: one who organises information in ways that make sense to his/her own community of practice or interest." Taking issue with it in his blogpost he says: "A folksonomy loses its qualities as a folksonomy once you have someone 'organising' it, and will quickly become a taxonomy."