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JANUARY 11, 2011

I doubt if there is anyone reading this blog who has not used Wikipedia in some way in the last 12 months. The final keynote speaker at Learning without Frontiers was the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. The final keynote speaker at Learning without Frontiers was the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In the last few years, the introduction of Creative Commons licensing has ensured that a lot of web based content is now open for reuse, repurposing and even commercial use. Now you have a collection of images you can use under the agreements of Creative Commons. Unported License. Unported License.

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JUNE 22, 2016

One of the most widespread examples of digital remix is Wikipedia. The appeal of Wikipedia and also any digital remix is that it is never complete. Teachers should be aware of existing copyright law, and also how to use licences such as Creative Commons to discover and share content that is specifically created for remixing.

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MAY 31, 2019

The idea that we are all members of various digital tribes, and that we gather around digital totems such as YouTube, Wikipedia and eBay, shows that connected extends beyond learning, to entertainment, commerce and culture. Unported License. Tapscott, D. and Williams, A (2008) Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Following her keynote at the EDEN annual Conference in Budapest, she sat down with me to discuss some of her ideas about open content, distance learning and open licensing. Unported License. Listen in as we discuss these and many more ideas about the future of learning and education. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2013

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? Unported License. Or can they work together with the new theories to provide us with a basis to understand what is happening.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2011

In an interesting episode last year, I personally experienced the power of the viral web through Wikipedia Commons. The next day I posted his picture onto my Flickr account and licenced it under Creative Commons for free sharing and re-use. Subsequently others loaded it up in several versions to Wikimedia Commons.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2013

If you search on Wikipedia for Santiago Swallow right now, you will be redirected to Ashton''s page. A Wikipedia page was created, and the final step was to construct a Swallow website with its own domain name for another £12. Unported License. What are the implications for us personally, socially and culturally?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

For Naughton, Craigslist had caused a dramatic and irreversible downturn in newspaper advertising revenue, and Wikipedia was hammering the nails into the proverbial coffin of the encyclopedia industry. From atoms to bits by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 5, 2014

We can expect for example to see some of the more visionary professors encouraging their students to create and edit Wikipedia pages for course credits, or publish their own articles and books through open publishing for Kindle or other e-book platforms. Unported License. Whether it takes 3 years or 30 is up for grabs.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Gerd Leonhard also talks about voluntary (consider the ongoing funding of Wikipedia through this method) and crowd sourced funding as revenue models that are already increasingly popular in the social media world. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JANUARY 16, 2016

Wikipedia is a classic example of this kind of open space editorial freedom. Image by Jakob Montrasio on Wikimedia Commons Work in progress by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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MAY 3, 2015

The exponential growth of online repositories of knowledge (Wikipedia), media (Wikimedia Commons - the source of the image above), images (Flickr, Instagram) and video (YouTube, Vimeo) would not have been so dramatic if there was less demand. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 18, 2015

Wikipedia is yet another example of disruptive innovation. Culturally Wikipedia has thoroughly disrupted the idea that you need to consult a printed encyclopaedia to get expert information. Unported License. Technically it is a collaborative online work space for creating and sharing content.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2014

The people''s encylopaedia - Wikipedia - is now the largest in the world, and continues to grow, eclipsing previous megaliths such as Encyclopaedia Britannica. Photo by Luc Viatour on Wikimedia Commons The Web and us by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JULY 8, 2013

The book features a number of examples of collective action using new tools, including the creation of the world''s largest repository of knowledge, Wikipedia , which didn''t even exist prior to 2001. Photo by Steve Wheeler All together now by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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MARCH 29, 2011

This is also the ethos of sites such as Wikipedia, which rely heavily on 'the people' and 'wisdom of crowds' to create and maintain the content held in its pages. A lot of academics and scolars scoff at Wikipedia and forbid their students to reference it in their assessed work. Unported License.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

A secondary argument is that there is a large amount of content on the web that is spurious, deceiving or inaccurate, and that user generated sites such as Wikipedia and blogs undermine the authority of professionals and academics. Unported License. and Wilson, B. 1999) Learning with Technology: A Constructivist Perspective.

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Learning with e's

MAY 15, 2014

Thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that Saipan is an island in the Marianas, south of Japan, and that it is a part of the Commonwealth of the US, with a population of close to 50,000 people. Photo by Steve Wheeler Doing and knowing by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JULY 13, 2015

What would have happened if Jimmy Wales had been overruled by his colleagues, and Wikipedia had been exclusively a knowledge repository populated by credentialled academics and scholars? What if talented and knowledgeable lay-people had been excluded from contributing to Wikipedia? Unported License. It's a good start.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2012

Wikipedia, the online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, hosts over 14 million articles on just about every subject under the sun. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Like to learn how to waltz, or play blues guitar? Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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APRIL 5, 2015

The arrival of Creative Commons licensing made free sharing a more attractive proposition for everyone. They contribute to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (where the picture on this page was found) with no qualms about copyright, or how much of their time they are giving up. Unported License. van Dijk, J.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2011

Just take Wikipedia: Technically it is a collaborative work space for creating content. There are around 7.000 authors for the German Wikipedia edition. The basic idea behind Wikipedia is that everybody can be an editor and a commentator. Wikipedia and weblogs were two of the most important applications of Web 2.0,

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AUGUST 19, 2015

Other technologies have similar potential for positive disruption, and yet are largely ignored or forbidden in formal education contexts Wikipedia, as I mentioned in yesterday's post , is a disruptor. The basic philosophy behind Wikipedia and the general practice of user generated content is that everybody can be an editor and a commentator.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 31, 2012

The conversation around online encyclopedias inevitably led us to discuss Wikipedia and its relevance in academic study. Wikipedia is good as a starting point, but students need to be aware that there is more in-depth knowledge available elsewhere in journals and books. Unported License.

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APRIL 26, 2015

Resources such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons have advanced learning to new levels. Photo by Jacques Cousteau on Wikimedia Commons Opening up learning by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Does the author have his own version of Creative Commons?" They actually make a valid point about the Creative Commons licence - I failed to post the final slide which tells viewers exactly which licence I selected - a share alike, non-commercial licence. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Shakespeare may well have died in 1616, but surely anyone can look this up on Wikipedia if and when they need to find out for themselves? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Give the kids questions from which more questions will arise.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Self organised spaces such as Wikipedia and YouTube have received bad press in the past, but increasingly, such huge, and ever growing repositories of knowledge and learning resources will become more important in education. Unported License. And we can no longer avoid or ignore the technology wave that is driving these changes.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

The more precisely one property is measured, (say the Wikipedia article) the less precisely the other can be controlled, determined, or known. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance." - William J. Unported License. What you can't do is measure both at the same time.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

The microphone gaffe - as its now known, even has its own Wikipedia page. Image source Weird recursion by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Mathematicians will understand the explanation below from Wikipedia, but the rest of us might struggle: The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers 'c' for which the sequence (c, c² + c, (c²+c)² + c, ((c²+c)²+c)² + c, (((c²+c)²+c)²+c)² + c,) does not approach infinity. Image from Wikimedia Commons Discursive or recursive?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2015

Here''s what Wikipedia says (and it''s accurate): In education, ipsative assessment is the practice of assessing present performance against the prior performance of the person being assessed. Unported License. One teacher raised their hand. This is a standard response. If it happened, it would be a seismic shift in education.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2011

My wikipedia page claims that I am a 'disruptive activist', which is quite an apt description of me - I use the term on my Twitter profile page. Image source Disruptive activism by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Spontaneous network connections, incorporating social media into physical spaces, the use of digital repositories such as Wikipedia, all seemed radical several years ago. Jim Groom #EDEN15 by Steve Wheeler was written in Barcelona, Spain and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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APRIL 2, 2015

Web searches could only go so far to provide knowledge, and that knowledge might be superficial anyway, especially if it had been generated by amateurs on a site such as Wikipedia. Unported License. There were already many criticisms of how users simply Googled something when they needed to know something. London: Atlantic Books.

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DECEMBER 18, 2011

I read Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger's blog with interest this week. Image by John Garghan Play the ball, not the man by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. In response to my post Content as Curriculum? Seely-Brown, J. and Thomas, D.

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