Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Web 2.0 in Online Education

After reading through numerous and varied discourses on the Defintion of Web 2.0. It seems to me that Web 2.0 incorporates existing and new innovations that allow people to interactively connect with one another!
Web 2.0 connects and bring people into a particpatory culture and sharing, learning and creating new knowledge and literacies. It has its potential in education. As educators, we must be careful in facilitating and guiding its use to prevent students from going off tangent from the learning objectives and outcomes. We need to guide students and provide some sort of structured approach. Students could quite easily go off tangent - however with some structures in place this would hopefully prevent this from happening.

What do you think?