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The changing Web

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The web is constantly changing. Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, Web 2.0 The Web is constantly changing, but it is also a change agent. geotagging).

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The architecture of learning

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One of the characteristics of Web 2.0, As far as Tim O'Reilly is concerned, Web 2.0 This facet was explained very clearly in Michael Wesch's excellent video Web 2.0. The Machine is Us/ing Us , which shows how web tools work better the more people use them. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0

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Next generation learning

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This change has been realised through access to inexpensive internet tools that offer easy ways to connect with others of similar interest. I also argued that if we view sequenced versions of the Web, based on the way learners use it, we will inevitably have to think of Learning 3.0 , and beyond. Learning 2.0 Learning 3.0, Learning 3.0

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

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I’m accompanied by my laptop, cigarettes and Starbucks coffee and I even have an internet connection! I believe for myself that social media and web 3.0 After all when it comes to computers and the web most of the learning community are still non native speakers. will add context to the web.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 or the ‘social web’. As my starting point I want to examine the phenomenon that is Web 2.0

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Google-de-Gook

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Don't suppose you've seen the latest article from BBC News about language on the web, have you? Web-lish to replace English runs the title, and the author, Ben Camm-Jones writes: 'New words coined to describe things we encounter on the internet can be pretty awful, but 'folksonomy' has been voted the worst of the lot.'

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The social impact of disruptive technology

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Being a self-declared 'disruptive activist', the subject of his speech 'The Future of Web 2.0 In the following interview he talks about the necessity of harnessing the potential of Web 2.0 Wheeler, which technologies do you consider "disruptive” and what has Web 2.0 The same can be applied to Web 2.0. to do with it?