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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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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

Of the two, Peter has no doubt which has primacy: Findability precedes usability In the alphabet and on the web You can't use what you can't find Historically, efforts at improving findability have been led by librarians, through elaborate systems of classification and meta tagging. I believe this will rub off on learning and development.

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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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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. Karl mentions templates, simplified (read standardized) tagging, guidelines, etc.

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December's BIG QUESTION!!! Part I

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Podcasting, videocasting, Corporate YouTube, Tagging, folksonomies vs. taxonomies, social networking, are a few of the elements that make up the new ecosystem we called Learning2.0. Perhaps the Google and Yahoo shopping sprees, and of course the Blackboard thingy , make the cut in my book. I LOVE my iMac.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.