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The social impact of disruptive technology

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Do you think this has a big social impact? What do they offer for learners? It will lead to the classification of knowledge through folksonomies and to the extended web which combines social and information richness. There are around 7.000 authors for the German Wikipedia edition. The future is very exciting.

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Next generation learning

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before social media) and Learning 2.0. In the summary of the article, I suggested that the distinct differences between the two types of learning are mostly based on how learners are changing the ways they interact, and their increased ability to create, share and organise their own learning. Learning 2.0 Learning 2.0 Learning 3.0

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The architecture of learning

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Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. represents a relatively passive individual learning mode where expert generated content is pushed at the learner. and can expect to see forms of learning and social interaction advancing as a result. For me, Learning 1.0 (if

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Learning pathways

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The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. The self-determined pathway to learning is fast becoming familiar to learners in the digital age, and is also the antithesis to the formal, structured learning found in traditional education.

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The changing Web

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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. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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or the ‘social web’. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Debate centres upon whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. Essentially, the Web has become more social. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0

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Semantic technologies and learning

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This is nicely facilitated by Social Web technologies (e.g. blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments.