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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories? I will be interested in your views. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s'

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

In each case, these are crude in that they look only at what terms people are using in a given content set. And now, because of eLearning Learning , I have a much better way to track these things over a much more interesting content sets. This works across any subset of the content including sources, keywords and arbitrary searches.

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. Blogs rely not only on content, but on users, and ultimately on the dialogue that ensues between all those who read the content. has evolved, we have seen an increasing amount of interactive content becoming available.

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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

There is also evidence that learning communities informally decide their own priorities, often observed in the emerging folksonomies that result when digital content is organised, shared and curated. Image by justpeace Learning pathways by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Next generation learning

Learning with e's

Increasingly, as users contribute to the content, links and pathways of the social web, it will become more 'intelligent', and will recommend to its users the best ways to find what they are looking for. was organised around taxonomies and content was largely expert generated, Learning 2.0 Learning 3.0, Where Learning 1.0 Learning 3.0

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. As a doorknob strategy, I asked two students to act as content curators.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

One of the greatest changes (and challenges) for education over the last few years has been the proliferation of user generated content. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging). Winston, B.