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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

In the comments section of my previous post, Mike Caulfield kindly pointed me to the article Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network by Jonathan Mott. Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). We can have both.&#. Amen to that.

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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). Search for restaurants in Google and Google Maps shows up with the various restaurants on the map. Mashups Possibilities.

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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.) Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools.

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eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ISPI Los Angeles

Tony Karrer

Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) Understanding eLearning 2.0 Needed Skills for New Media eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Personal Work and Learning Environments eLearning 1.0, Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0

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PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism

Learning with e's

Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This was one of several sound bites that exemplified the theme of his speech, Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment. One size never did fit everyone.

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Don't miss the train!

Learning with e's

I'm just about to hop on a train and make my way up to Milton Keynes for the first time, where tomorrow I'm an external examiner for one of the Open University 's PhD candidates. The chapter traces how students represent the structure of their personal learning environments, and their distributed potential. becomes Web 3.0.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Developed over 60 e-learning programs. Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. In the 90s there were one or two ways to do e-Learning: CDRoms and then the web. Instructional designers can take the tools and create a good learning experience or not.

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