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The changing Web

Learning with e's

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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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. If I have the time to go exploring through multiple links and see the interrelations between key words, I might go to del.icio.us.

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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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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking can solve all of those problems and bring you additional benefits you probably haven’t even thought of. Your first question may be, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”. TLDR: If you’re short on time grab this quick start guide to social bookmarking. What is Social Bookmarking?

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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 - 6/1/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Screencasting Del.icio.us. Folksonomies? 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. Organic metatags? Del.ioci.us? Self-organizing ontologies? The Power of Design. The evidence of design's power is everywhere.

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

Take blended learning for example. If you want to create a formal, top-down learning intervention (yes, this is still the norm) and you're open minded about how it should be delivered (less normal), then in most organisations you're stuck.