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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

folksonomy rather than standardization. No repository (unless you view the whole web as a repository). Not dependent on time or place. Doesn’t always help you meet a specific learning objective. no grades/ratings/certifications. Relies on peer-to-peer interaction. Relies on interaction with internet media.

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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. social networking.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

How might we begin to understand the issues surrounding folksonomies, peer learning, or collaborative informal learning that seem to occur spontaneously, outside the classroom, spanning the entire globe - using old theories that were written to describe what happens in a classroom?

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Data & Training, Learning, Folksonomy, Scenario Learning, Outsourcing, & Rapid eLearning

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomy folktales - KM World. Folksonomies are the exact opposite of the wisdom of crowds. "In fact we find the structure of the brain is ripe for change. We've shown that it is possible for the brain to condition its own wiring system to operate more efficiently.". The Dewey Decimal System is not a good example of a taxonomy.

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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

So for me, it's not quite the folksonomy effect that most people talk about, but based on these articles, I'm starting to think that's what other people are finding as well. Sharing - I tag items that I plan to share with a specific tag so that others in my group can find it.

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. I watched his video just now and it is a must see for everybody who works in corporate e-Learning. A lot of fancy words for structured tags that declare what content is about.

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