INFORMAL LEARNING & THE SOCIAL WEB

by Neil Ballantyne (SIESWE) & Keith Quinn (SSSC)

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CONTENTS

PART 1

Informal learning

The social web

Blogs and blogging

Wikis

Podcasts and podcasting

Social bookmarking and tagging

Really simple syndication (RSS)

Conclusion

PART 2

The read-write web

Personal publishing and employee blogs

Social software behind the firewall: on campus

Social software behind the firewall: in the workplace

The potential and the challenge

The original version of this article first appeared in Care Appointments June 2006 (part 1) and July 2006 (part 2).

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