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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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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. This facet was explained very clearly in Michael Wesch's excellent video Web 2.0.

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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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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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Many encounters

Learning with e's

I sadly missed Jay Cross's keynote, because I had to travel across town to Oxford Circus to meet up with Ali Hughes and Derek Wenmoth (Core Ed team) who wanted to meet up with me to discuss my upcoming keynote in Christchurch for the uLearn Conference in October. Tags: LSG Jay Cross Don Taylor Web 2.0 EDEN Conference.

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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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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/10/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess (podcast). Discussion of variouss topics important to folksonomies. Surprising aspects of the implementation of tagging in various environments and approaches to balancing the needs of the system to the desires of the user are discussed from various viewpoints.