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Data & Training, Learning, Folksonomy, Scenario Learning, Outsourcing, & Rapid eLearning

Big Dog, Little Dog

They are learning to collect and manipulate information on personal computers or what are known as clusters, where computer servers are cabled together to form a larger computer. Folksonomy folktales - KM World. Folksonomies are the exact opposite of the wisdom of crowds. Hierarchies are not rigid, conservative and centralized.

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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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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

There is also evidence that learning communities informally decide their own priorities, often observed in the emerging folksonomies that result when digital content is organised, shared and curated. Most are the result of informal learning, achieved outside and beyond the walls of the traditional education environment.

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

Challenge to Learn

I got so much information that I’m still processing, I will try to summarize it for you. Selecting information that is relevant for you based on all kind of information that is available. Information will start to present itself at the time you need it. And …… they all were great.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

Peter describes himself as an information architect, which cynics (heaven forbid) might describe as a highly impressive rebranding for those formerly known as librarians. The alternative, of course, is a bottom-up effort whereby users apply their own tags to online content, evolving in the process what are now commonly known as folksonomies.

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Many encounters

Learning with e's

Started the morning off having breakfast with Informal Learning guru Jay Cross in the lounge of the K-West hotel, in Kensington, West London. 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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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies. Way Back Machine. Enter the URL in the search field and then click the "Take Me Back" button.