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The changing Web

Learning with e's

The web is constantly changing. Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, Web 2.0 The Web is constantly changing, but it is also a change agent.

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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. social networking.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

Being a self-declared 'disruptive activist', the subject of his speech 'The Future of Web 2.0 In the following interview he talks about the necessity of harnessing the potential of Web 2.0 Wheeler, which technologies do you consider "disruptive” and what has Web 2.0 The same can be applied to Web 2.0. to do with it?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 or the ‘social web’. As my starting point I want to examine the phenomenon that is Web 2.0

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

One of the characteristics of Web 2.0, As far as Tim O'Reilly is concerned, Web 2.0 This facet was explained very clearly in Michael Wesch's excellent video Web 2.0. The Machine is Us/ing Us , which shows how web tools work better the more people use them. In his famous Wired article, Kevin Kelly suggested Web 2.0

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Next generation learning

Learning with e's

before social media) and Learning 2.0. is socially much richer and more participatory, and relies more on interaction with other learners than any previous learning approach. Social media are enabling learners everywhere to connect and work together with each other, forming convenient communities and networks of shared interest.

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

Challenge to Learn

We talked about social media and how it will affect learning, we talked about how to bring learning closer to the workplace, we discussed whether or not the role of an e-Learning professional would change from a writer to somebody who moderates and gathers information and then will structure and republish it. will add context to the web.

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