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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

has marked a shift in emphasis from the personal computer to the web, and the services it conveys. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0 Essentially, where Web 1.0

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Semantic-rich service-oriented architectures for multimedia learning environments.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003) who views the Web as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Essentially, the Web has become more social. geotagging).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. 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.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

The alternative, of course, is a bottom-up effort whereby users apply their own tags to online content, evolving in the process what are now commonly known as folksonomies. And for personal bookmark tools they're not bad for keeping found things found. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

savvy personnel (most are retired chiefs with more than 20 years’ Navy service). How do you implement personal knowledge management (PKM) for yourself and your organization? An unexpected surprise has been the enthusiastic adoption of the wiki by even the least Web 2.0

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