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Data & Training, Learning, Folksonomy, Scenario Learning, Outsourcing, & Rapid eLearning

Big Dog, Little Dog

For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing systems to support their studies. Folksonomy folktales - KM World. Folksonomies are the exact opposite of the wisdom of crowds. Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data - New York Times. In fact we find the structure of the brain is ripe for change.

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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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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

image, sound, and video) to provide students with a better understanding of concepts under study. 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. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

Reflection and Amplification Now that I have some time, I can sit down and reflect on an extraordinary two hour session with my BA Education Studies students this morning. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

The essential premise underpinning the use of any Social Web application is that over a period of time it genuinely becomes self-supporting, and that the students will enjoy the freedom to produce their own content and study pathways.

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

Big Dog, Little Dog

Using Case Studies to Teach Science (note: excellent article for all learning professionals) I will tell you something about stories; they aren't just entertainment. Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Tribe Wikipedia's Word on Folksonomy. Mirror Neurons (video) We humans are really good at reading faces and bodies. Don't be fooled.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/20/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. Sandra Witelson had studied scores of brains looking for gender differences. An RSS feed is a blog distilled to its core essence. If you look at the output of an RSS feed in a reader, you'll see no comments, no trackbacks and (for the most part) no design. It's the better blog.