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Learning Space Mash-up: Toward a Collaborative Personal Learning Environment

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One of the papers I will be presenting in September is entitled: "Learning Space Mash-up: Toward a Collaborative Personal Learning Environment". Thirdly, I will revisit the idea that mashup PLEs will rival and perhaps ultimately supplant the institutional Learning Management System (LMS) or VLE.

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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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My e-learning philosophy

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The entire interview covers a range of other topics including backchannels and Twitter, digital natives and immigrants, the semantic web, social tools and academic rigour, learning technology affordances and constraints, a critique of institutional VLEs, e-portfolios, online submission systems, blogs and wikis, Web 3.0,

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

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Groom's popular and anarchic blog Bavatuesdays is a regular port of call for all those seeking this kind of eclectic and irreverent mashup of concepts, thoughts and opinions. He asked the question 'how do we build an architecture that allows us to aggregate content from across the web and coalesce it in a centralised hub for learners?'

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[from bwatwood] Learning with 'e's: e-Learning 3.0

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In conversation earlier today on Twitter with Sue Waters and Darcy Moore , we discussed what learning would look like in a Web 3.0 will have at least four key drivers: Distributed computing Extended smart mobile technology Collaborative intelligent filtering 3D visualisation and interaction Firstly, in a Web 3.0 will look like.

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Can anybody hear me?

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I walked back up the stairs to my desk for a quick cup of tea before the session started. VLEs are generally difficult to use, with far too much effort needed to be put into understanding how the system works, to the detriment of the time and effort spent actually learning. Tags: VLE PLE Martin Ebner Edupunk Educamp rhizome.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

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When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Discussion board/whiteboard. for example.