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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Firstly.the Social Web connects people together At Plymouth University, we very quickly began to explore the ways Social Web tools could support our students.

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Top 50 Learning System Rankings (#39-#21)

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Bookmarklet – which is added to your address bar area (on your browser), so that when you find a web site you like, you can click the bookmarklet and it is auto placed into the system (with whatever text you wish to include). 27 Asentia LMS (Pro version). Playlist are quite good.

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Thinking around corners

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I am against the sterile, meaningless Managed Learning Environments (read BlackBoard, SharePoint and yes, even Moodle) that universities and colleges push which are purpose built to maintain strict control. Anything an MLE can do, the social web can do just as well, if not better. There is a tension between the Web 2.0

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