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The changing Web

Learning with e's

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 architecture of learning

Learning with e's

The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. One of the best theories to describe how learning is organised in Web 2.0

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, I started the session with the aim of encouraging the group to learn deeply and critically about a particular topic - MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

social web) tools in teacher education for the last two years and have attempted to qualify their use in a number of areas of learner support including shared online spaces (Wheeler et al, 2008) and blogs (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0

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

Challenge to Learn

Not only LMS (in Scorm format), but also to online help, EPSS systems, knowledge management systems et cetera. In the early nineties I worked at Informaat at a content management system for online help en technical documentation. But maybe even more important it means that with the aid of DITA you can publish to all kind of systems.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

One of the central premises of the book is that findability (the ease with which information can be found by its audience) is an essential ingredient in any strategy for online communication. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/14/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Tribe Wikipedia's Word on Folksonomy. There's a debate at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about a new listing for the word folksonomy, which it defines as "a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords." You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.