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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians.

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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. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit. and Purdon, M.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking can solve all of those problems and bring you additional benefits you probably haven’t even thought of. Your first question may be, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”. TLDR: If you’re short on time grab this quick start guide to social bookmarking. What is Social Bookmarking?

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

If you want to create a formal, top-down learning intervention (yes, this is still the norm) and you're open minded about how it should be delivered (less normal), then in most organisations you're stuck. And by arranging tracks into playlists I can create any number of new catageories of my own choosing.