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Learning pathways

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Instead of imposing his own ideas onto the community, the architect had crowd sourced his design. In plain English, the authors are attempting to describe the way ideas spread out naturally to occupy spaces like water finding its level. Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways.

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Parabolic learning

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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, Today, I took the risk of going into the room with just a germ of an idea to see how it would develop.

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The changing Web

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They like to share their ideas, and they enjoy playing their part in the production of knowledge. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Essentially, Web 2.0 enables them to take more responsibility for their own learning. geotagging).

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

Challenge to Learn

But it is fun to see that an idea you worked on 20 years ago is now alive and available. And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. Of course we didn’t get that far and of course there is no connecting between to work we did back then and DITA now.

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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.

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Many encounters

Learning with e's

tools (I demonstrated the wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and social tagging through a number of 'get out of your seat' activities which seemed to go down well) and problem based learning.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

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In fact it has thoroughly overturned the idea that you need to consult a printed encyclopedia to get expert information. The basic idea behind Wikipedia is that everybody can be an editor and a commentator. Others don’t accept the idea that students have the same status as lecturers. There is hardly any need for them.