What “Web 2.
0” Means in Education
The past eight years or so have seen growing excitement within the educational community
about web 2.
0 technologies.
‘Web 2.
0’ is an umbrella term for a host of recent internet
applications such as social networking,...
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What “Web 2.
0” Means in Education
The past eight years or so have seen growing excitement within the educational community
about web 2.
0 technologies.
‘Web 2.
0’ is an umbrella term for a host of recent internet
applications such as social networking, wikis, folksonomies, virtual societies, blogging,
multiplayer online gaming and ‘mash-ups’.
Whilst differing in form and function, all these applications share a common characteristic of
supporting internet-based interaction between and within groups, which is why the term ‘social
software’ is often used to describe web 2.
0 tools and services.
Web 2.
0 marks a distinct break from the internet applications of the 1990s and early 2000s,
facilitating ‘interactive’ rather than ‘broadcast’ forms of exchange, in which information is
shared ‘many-to-many’ rather than being transmitted from one to many.
Web 2.
0 applications are
built around the appropriation and sharing of content amongst communities of users, resulting in
various forms o
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