Additionally, with new cloud computing and increased reliability of data storage and retrieval, the mashup is a viable replacement for the portal which will lead to less reliance on centralised provision. With smart phone devices and better connectivity through constantly improving line-of-sight (satellite and wireless) networking services, there is little to stop learners everywhere from accessing what they need on the move, from virtually anywhere on the planet. MORE

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. It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. 2002) The Network Society. MORE

Enterprise Learning2.0 : With the coming of Vista and the inevitable LMS upgrades, corporations will begin to see, touch, and feel the collective power of RSS, tagging, social networks, and user-generated content. Efforts like SLOODLE which mashes up MOODLE and Secondlife are only the beginning. Grassroots Powerplay : The user-generated content movement will pick up steam in 2007. What are your predictions for 2007? MORE

A social networking tool is needed to implement this form of interaction. Tagging and keywording items, and even creating mashups, help promote natural patterns of interaction in an online learning environment. There are a multitude of interaction methods in an eLearning environment to promote social learning. Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. But which strategy is the most effective? MORE

A social networking tool is needed to implement this form of interaction. Tagging and keywording items, and even creating mashups, help promote natural patterns of interaction in an online learning environment. There are a multitude of interaction methods in an eLearning environment to promote social learning. Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. But which strategy is the most effective? MORE

This is where the rubber meets the road, by dreaming up features we invent the mLearning systems future right here. Social/Collaborative – Offering tools that mimic social media/network software will be one obvious theme. For administrators/managers robust analysis tools for social network and generated content analysis will provide a truer picture of the ‘knowledge state’ of the organization than an LMS could ever hope to represent. MORE

Social software is based heavily on participation, and this is apparent in a number of features including social tagging , voting, versioning, hyperlinking and searching, as well as discussion and commenting. These were posted up onto the group wiki, and a short summary attached by the ‘gold miner’ to explain what it contained and why it would be useful. This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. MORE

Process: October: open up to the advisory board. brainstorming: lots of wikis, blogs, social networking, audio/podcasts. Example: sending students out with cameras and sharing geotagged images, mashup images with Google Maps. Tagging tools. Personal Learning Environments/Personal Learning Networks. Right now, there’s a manual process of tagging or have software tag it (still cumbersome). I wonder what would come up with if we did this with PLS. MORE

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. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments. YouTube multimedia Folksonomy e-learning Meta tagging user generated content semantic web mobile learning ontologies Web 2.0 MORE

Another is to set up feeds that are triggered by particular topics of interest. He also touts mashups , where two things are juxtaposed creating new meanings. Internally, it can be both collecting resources in a portal and tagging them with terms that will assist your workers to find them. Lurking is a legitimate network activity, but if you’re processing the information, putting it out the processed version out there rewards those who are doing the same. MORE