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Many encounters

Learning with e's

tools (I demonstrated the wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and social tagging through a number of 'get out of your seat' activities which seemed to go down well) and problem based learning. Tags: LSG Jay Cross Don Taylor Web 2.0 Stay tuned - or whatever they say, in this web enabled world. EDEN Conference.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

I will attempt to contextualise these changes at the level of both organisation and individual, to provide a picture of how universities and teachers might manage their business in the coming decade. Once again, I will do so based upon my knowledge and experience gained from a career in which research has been central to my work.

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kowabunga dude!

The Learning Circuits

before rss, news aggregators, blogrolls, technorati tags and folksonomies, most "webbies" would wander around from site to site, following whatever link caught their imagination. or a gnarly site with pictures from a berlin burlesque show? back in the barbaric dark ages of web 1.0 it didn't do anything.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking improves upon this by letting you tag the things you find with multiple keywords or tags. Tagging can eliminate (or at least minimize) time-sucking searches for that elusive bookmark you know is in there somewhere. BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”).