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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. Sharing - I tag items that I plan to share with a specific tag so that others in my group can find it.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. Besides being able to author, publish, discover, and use high-quality learning objects, it is equally important to use multimedia-rich learning objects. Yet, students are also content creators. Spector ( 2009 ) of Google Inc.

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

Challenge to Learn

What will e-Learning look like in 5 years time? We had an inspiring discussion on the future of e-Learning, despite the early hour (7.15!). We talked about motivation of learners (motivation has dropped because we institutionalized learning so much that it got detached from every day live). There was not one outcome.

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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. Doing this, they tend to engage more deeply with learning, and find themselves collaborating more and learning from each other, as a result of using Web 2.0 Unported License.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

In fact Peter wrote what was probably the definitive book on the subject, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , which I vaguely recall reading some time back (I find that now I blog a review of any book I read, I remember much more, which for me is an invaluable side effect of blogging). The two work together.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of Learning Technology at the University of Plymouth, will give a public keynote on February 2 at the LEARNTEC Bildungsforum, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Technologies in Learning' is very close to the core of his professional interests and endeavours. Is there also hardware with similar effects?

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/15/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

What's Noteworthy on Learners, Learning & Schooling - McRel. Schools operating within the industrial age model of education do not provide working and learning environments that support the autonomous and independent contributions befitting life in an information age society. The Name Game - folksonomies - CIO.