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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, mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course. Today was different, because normally I prepare thoroughly for the sessions.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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

Challenge to Learn

Of course we didn’t get that far and of course there is no connecting between to work we did back then and DITA now. And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. A lot of fancy words for structured tags that declare what content is about.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies. Enter the URL in the search field and then click the "Take Me Back" button. To get the original page, cut away the first part of the link.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

The alternative, of course, is a bottom-up effort whereby users apply their own tags to online content, evolving in the process what are now commonly known as folksonomies. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery. I believe this will rub off on learning and development.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

Of course, what I write on my blog is not institutionally checked, which is different to a publication in a scientific journal which may go through two blind peer reviews. Of course they can be used inappropriately, e. Others don’t accept the idea that students have the same status as lecturers. Smartphones are disruptive.

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More rogue.

Janet Clarey

Of course, this [ the writers had said that informal learning needs to be integrated into formal learning in the sense that it should be tied to measurable performance metrics] isn’t the point of informal learning at all – but I can see the point. for not tripping over that stack ‘o buzz words.).