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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

Some academics are aggressively protective of their so called intellectual property and many others jealously guard their course notes, slides, and other content. And that is where the social media come in. Increasingly academics are making their ideas freely available on blogs, social networks and other sharing sites.

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Digital learning futures

Learning with e's

These slides accompanied my presentation during the Learning Technologies conference and exhibition held at London's Olympia on 25-26 January. The latter in particular is a trend that is allowing us to use web-enabled television, dual view screens, and in the near future will enable a merging between e-mail and social media.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Four roles for social media in workplace learning - Clive on Learning , September 28, 2010 I write this as I travel to Birmingham to participate in a panel discussion with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Robin Hoyle on the role of social media in learning. Reusing eLearning material (OER) from other sources or not, asks UNESCO.

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Interactive Textbooks: Transforming the Educational Landscape

Kitaboo

These updates can be incorporated into educational materials and shared through social media platforms or discussion threads and comments. Let us consider Open Educational Resources (OER), for instance. Further, it has become equally relevant to make learning more interactive using social learning platforms.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

Social Media: An Interview STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012. Today’s before and after #Change11 MOOC Slides NANCY WHITE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011. MOOCs , OER University, Stanford AI. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. MOOCs for the win! Learning 2.0.