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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

Indeed, my top three all-time cited academic publications are: Wikis, blogs and podcasts : A new generation of web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education (2006) The emerging Web 2.0

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. geotagging).

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World Health 2.0

Learning with e's

It's one of a suite of papers Maged Boulos and I have been working on with colleagues around the world over the last 3 years, and this one is particularly exciting because it shows how to harness Web 2.0 tools, mashups and aggregators to predict localised social trends such as flu epidemics. Keywords: Social Web; Web 2.0;

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. Home > Learning Technologies , Social Learning > Is There a Better Way to Social Learning? Is There a Better Way to Social Learning? Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job. Corporate learning must follow suit. Instant messenger, Twitter clones, podcasts. Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom.