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Web 2.0 Technologies: Collective Intelligence for Education
Web 2.0 Learning Platform: Harnessing Collective Intelligence. Please enjoy this thoughtful paper on how technology is changing the way we learn and teach. Web 2.0 Technologies and Education In short, in today’s world everyone is both a teacher and a … Continue reading
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Online Learning – Sense of Community and its relief of isolation for online learners
The following represents reviews I conducted articles relating to the importance of “sense of community” to help alleviate isolation and frustration for online learners. Article 1 Kreijns, K., Kirschner, P.A., Jochems, W. (2003). Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in … Continue reading
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Instructional Design: The Process
The Role of Instructional Design Instructional design is a synergy of disciplines that create a systematic process for the development of instruction. This process combines best practices in instruction with proven learning theories and often uses technology as its delivery … Continue reading
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Think New Ideas: Collective Intelligence Research
Think New Ideas: A Collaborative Research Community ThinkNewIdeas.com is a community of forward thinking individuals interested in learning how to facilitate global collaboration. The group will explore and share how Web 2.0 technologies can be successfully used to create and … Continue reading
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Wikipedia: Collective Intelligence at Work
Wikipedia: A case study in global collective intelligence In order to understand collective intelligence more clearly, we need to study one of the strongest and prime examples of collective knowledge building on the Web.That is Wikipedia.Despite earlier questions regarding it’s … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: What is collective intelligence and augmented social cognition?
Collective Intelligence Collective intelligencecan be defined as an organically grown bank of knowlege, which providesthe group with a totalsum of knowledge that is fargreater than what each individual member could produce or realize on their own. Information within collective intelligenceis … Continue reading
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Wikis: Using Wikis for Business and Education
Wikis: Wikis are evolving into the perfect collaborative tool for business and education. By now, nearly everyone has heard of, or used the famous “Wikipedia” that was launchedin 2001. But what you might not realize is that the open source … Continue reading
Teacher’s Guide: What is Podcasting?
What is Podcasting? Podcasts are essentially episodes of programming delivered via the Internet. They can useaudio, video or PDFs or a combination of all three. Content publishers utilize RSS feeds which contain metadata, allowing for the broadcast to be catalogued … Continue reading
Web 2.0: Collective Intelligence
Rays of Collective Intelligence within the Web 2.0 environment: Web 2.0 is aboutWeb usersconnecting together and collectively creating and sharing knowledge. It is an extremely powerful and exciting concept which I find particularly compelling.It is also the basic foundationofthe theory … Continue reading
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Education: Situated Cognition
Comparative Organizer: Situated Cognition Author:Diane Michel Representative theorists Jean Lave €” A social anthropologist whose studies focus on learning through social interaction and situated learning. Significant breakthroughs achieved by “reconceiving” ideas of “learning, learners, and educational institutions”. Doesn’t believe that … Continue reading
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