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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. Tags: Customer Communities Social Networks Web 2.0 social networking.

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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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Up Pompey

Learning with e's

I hope to explore some of the possibilities and potential of tools such as blogs, wikis, microblogs and aggregators, and will also explore mashups, social tagging, and concepts such as 'wisdom of crowds' and folksonomies. I'm going to try to place all of this in the context of higher education, student engagement and communities of practice.

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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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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

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, I added the hashtag #moocplym for good measure so we could track the conversation across the community.

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

After all when it comes to computers and the web most of the learning community are still non native speakers. And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. Introducing DITA learning and training content specialization.

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