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Web 2.0 for teaching and learning
Dr. Dimitrios Vlachopoulos
University of Roehampton, LondonEuropean University Cyprus
Laureate International Universities
Index
1. Introduction
2. The concept of web 2.0 technologies
3. Educational opportunities and challenges for web 2.0
4. Education 2.0
Introduction
• Growing excitement within the educational community about web 2.0 technologies
• ‘Web 2.0’ is an umbrella/inclusive term
• Social software
• ‘Interactive’ rather than ‘broadcast’ forms of exchange
Introduction
• Wikipedia≠ Online Encyclopedia
• 3 c’s Creation, collaboration and communication
• Relation between education and web and vice versa
The concept of Web 2.0
• 2.0 traditional activity has now adopted a particular set of new tools
• Web 2.0 movement
• Microcontent
• Openess
Web 2.0 services
• Socializing through games and virtual worlds
• Media design, sharing and publication
• Reflect through blog, social networks & wikis
• Explore through syndication, recommenders, folksonomies
Important concepts (for education) associated to web 2.0
• Collaboration
• Publication
• Literacies
• Inquiry
Opportunities & Challenges
• New ways of learning
• New types of learners
• New spaces for learning
• Access to knowledge for the masses
• “Disconnection” of learners
• ”Distraction from studies”
• Distance students from the offline realities
Can we talk about Education 2.0?
• The “web 2.0 debate”• Re-imagining educational practice• TEACHER• STUDENT• INSTITUTION• EVALUATION• CURRICILUM
• Re-imagining web 2.0
Conclusions
• Web 2.0 is an evolving phenomenon
• How can we design web 2.0 to work in education?
• Collaboration between tech-people and pedagogists
Questions?
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