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City of the dead

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I think that Managed Learning Environments are like Pompeii. Secondly, the new generation of social networking students don't want or need to be managed. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Tags: MySpace MLE YouTube Flickr Vesuvius MSN FaceBook Bebo Pompeii. Some people got out in time.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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The Social Web challenges current provision There is a sense from many younger students that the institutional managed learning environments are not popular tools, because they fail in comparison to the more colourful, flexible and accessible social networking tools that are available for free on the internet.

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