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Learning pathways

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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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The architecture of learning

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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. Unported License.

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Next generation learning

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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. Unported License. The full power of the Learning 2.0 Where Learning 1.0

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Parabolic learning

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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. Unported License.

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Theories for the digital age: Postmodern perspectives

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The community decides what is important to learn, so in effect, the community becomes the curriculum (Cormier, 2008). The colonisation of knowledge spaces by communities is self sustaining, and in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, we see individuals assuming the roles of nomads, maintaining a constant state of becoming and transformation.

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