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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

How might we begin to understand the issues surrounding folksonomies, peer learning, or collaborative informal learning that seem to occur spontaneously, outside the classroom, spanning the entire globe - using old theories that were written to describe what happens in a classroom?

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. The years associated with Wiki suggest it was more discussed a couple years ago and now is discussed less.

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

Challenge to Learn

We had an inspiring discussion on the future of e-Learning, despite the early hour (7.15!). It is difficult to capture this for you but the discussion had some interesting turns and twists. This means we were discussing the future of e-Learning between digital immigrants and that disqualifies us in a way.

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. This content is generated not only by the experts, but also increasingly by the learners themselves, and tends to be organised by the community rather than by the experts.

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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, The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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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. Faron Zucker, R.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Students proposed and discussed their rules, which included the banning of offensive language and racist comments. Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning.

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