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The changing Web

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My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. Photo by Felix Burton on Wikimedia Commons The survival of higher education (2): Changing times by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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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. Unported License. By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook.