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Learning theories for the digital age

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Do we need them to describe and frame what is currently happening in an age where everyone is as connected as they wish to be, where social media are the new meeting places, and where mobile telephones are pervading every aspect of our lives. Unported License. Is it now time for these new theories to replace the old ones?

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. Unported License. They also have the capacity to support personal learning.

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Learning pathways

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The advent of social media, mobile communications and digital media facilitate large, unbounded personal learning networks that mimic the characteristics of rhizomes. Image by justpeace Learning pathways by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Next generation learning

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before social media) and Learning 2.0. Social media are enabling learners everywhere to connect and work together with each other, forming convenient communities and networks of shared interest. has seen as shift toward user generated content, and the emergent property of folksonomies. Unported License. Where Learning 1.0

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The changing Web

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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. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning.

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Parabolic learning

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We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, Unported License. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. It proves to me that sometimes spontaneity can pay dividends.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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O''Reilly Media. Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. Photo by Felix Burton on Wikimedia Commons The survival of higher education (2): Changing times by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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