Key ideas

Brief overview of Web 2.0 in higher education. Links to a few publications which may be useful.

• Communicative: applications that are used to share ideas, information and creations
  • Social networks
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
• Collaborative publishing: for working with others in a shared working environment for a particular purpose
  • Wikis
  • Blogs
• Documentative (content management): applications which collect and/or present people’s experiences and thoughts
  • Blogs
  • Social Bookmarking
• Generative: applications to generate something new to be used by other users
  • Mashups
  • Media sharing
• Interactive: applications which facilitate information and resource exchange between users
  • Social bookmarking
  • RSS

(Boateng et al, 2010)

• A mechanism for controlling/moderating the Web 20 discussions
• The decision whether to locally host the systems or rely on externally hosted systems
• Encouraging the users to use Web 20 applications; and assessment of use of these applications on learning outcomes
• Development of a Web 20 strategy

(Franklin and Harmelen, 2007)