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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

has marked a shift in emphasis from the personal computer to the web, and the services it conveys. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0 Essentially, where Web 1.0

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

While today user-created multimedia content is a commodity in learning environments, we need to have pedagogical strategies to show how to make the best use of the available technologies. opposes the Semantic Web, these two efforts are being jointly used to create a common space of semantic technologies (Hendler, 2009 ).

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students. One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit. We therefore designed a number of activities for the wiki.

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kowabunga dude!

The Learning Circuits

thus the power of bookmarking services like blinklist , de.licio.us , and the like.) before rss, news aggregators, blogrolls, technorati tags and folksonomies, most "webbies" would wander around from site to site, following whatever link caught their imagination. i just had the experience that i'm sure happens to many of us.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

savvy personnel (most are retired chiefs with more than 20 years’ Navy service). This presentation is both a case study and “how to” session including a look at tools and procedures necessary to develop an internal wiki, lessons learned, and tips for creating an effective, efficient, and inexpensive knowledge management solution.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

not created by the user. created by someone in advance. folksonomy rather than standardization. Control of these infrastructures and services presuppose a signifcant level of economic enfranchisement and social integration, and technical and communicative competency.&#. Learning objects are. in repositories. need to know.