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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

The problem with this is that students may not always be as accurate or fastidious in their content generation as they could be, and may need guidance on the pathway they choose to take. We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students. Wheeler, S.

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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. BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”). For those of you raising your hand, this post is for you. Keep reading to find out why.

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

Instead there's a simple binary system of classification - it's either a classroom problem or an e-learning one. The problem was that our courses were neither pure soft skills (where technology rarely rears its ugly head) nor IT training (where good design in presentations, printed documents or web content never gets a mention).