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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Adaptive Learning with a Social Q/A twist. Mashups Possibilities. Open Architecture. Can you have more than one + one?

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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Mott states: “The OLN is not intended merely to allow the LMS and PLE paradigms to coexist in harmony, but rather to take the best of each approach and mash them up into something completely different.&#. It formalises the informal. We can have both.&#. Amen to that.

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Kindle Highlights Social Learning

Marcia Conner

This means you can now have a fabulous way to share what you’re learning and a socially-generated way to learn from others. To get a sense of the sorts of things highlighted, here are the popular highlights from Kindle edition of The New Social Learning. It’s sort of like Cliff-notes for the digital era.

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Sausages and mash(up)

Learning with e's

I'm sat here at the University of Applied Social Sciences , in Darmstadt, Germany, (land of the sausage - we sampled some great ones last night!) For their project, one of the groups of bright young things has come up with an idea they have called Wiki ++. I ask politely what the "++" stands for, and they show me.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | December 18, 2020

Mike Taylor

These are super fun mashups and remixes of traditional holiday songs. Can Social Networks Help Us Be More Creative? While I realize the presence of some of the ill-effects, social networks can have some benefits. Speaking and Workshop Information Sheet. Thanks for reading! I love them and I hope you do too!

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Social Network Analysis - Twitter - Social Media - Best Stuff from Last Week

Tony Karrer

Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Business Casual , April 25, 2009 Fantastic File Converter - eLearning Acupuncture , April 24, 2009 Call for eLearning Demonstrations - eLearning Technology , May 1, 2009 When should you use Informal Learning? .

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Social Is Not An Option by Ben Betts

LearningGuild

As we find out how learning happens, and how technology can support learning, some interesting hybrids (mash-ups?) Four ideas dominate: informal learning, social learning, mobile learning, and games-based learning. Mobile Serious Games Social Media Tools. are appearing. The result: a very different way of learning.

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