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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. Doing this, they tend to engage more deeply with learning, and find themselves collaborating more and learning from each other, as a result of using Web 2.0 geotagging).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Finally, I will suggest that there are five key objectives to achieve if universities are to achieve success in the use of learning technologies in the future. applications have grown out of the need for people to connect together, share experiences and knowledge, enhance their experiences and open up new possibilities in learning.

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

I met some old friends and forged closer collaborations, and also met some new and interesting colleagues, whom I will be working with in the future - this a real strength of EDEN - bringing together e-Learning professionals and enabling them to network. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. I'm thinking about the Web 2.0

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/10/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

The changing conception of knowledge, the idea of knowing (and learning) as a network phenomenon, and how that changes how we should approach metadata and in particular learning object metadata. Folksonomy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess (podcast).

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/15/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

What's Noteworthy on Learners, Learning & Schooling - McRel. Schools operating within the industrial age model of education do not provide working and learning environments that support the autonomous and independent contributions befitting life in an information age society. IT Conversations (podcast). What's driving this?

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/1/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

The Education Podcast Network. The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers. Folksonomies? But when the item appeared only 10 times in every 1,000 images, their error rate rocketed to 30 percent. Organic metatags?

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study.