Sounds like Web 2.0? It is somewhat related but E-Learning 2.0 taps on Web 2.0’s features to increase and facilitate online learning.
To define E-Learning 2.0, we can say that it combines e-learning trends with the features of Web 2.0. For example, tagging and sharing a webpage on social bookmarking sites.
Web 2.0 is defined as anyone on the Internet can create and publish content with ease and share it to the community at large. Most of Web 2.0 content is user-defined and commented on, creating a shift in publishing power from institutions to the society. Development of software has also shifted to providing the service of the software rather than to sell the software.
E-Learning 2.0 assists e-learning that is no longer from a single authoritative source, but from a peer-to-peer level. Peers can tag and share web pages through del.icio.us, a social bookmarking too. This allows information to be shared widely, fully accessible from any computer and everyone can have the same set of information. Blogging about the information learnt or gathered will generate feedback from fellow peers and the blogging community. Wikis can be done up as a shared resource that peers can edit and use. RSS readers can keep peers in the loops of wikis, social bookmarking tools and blogs for updates and new information.
Information is now peer-to-peer and is readily avaliable anywhere with a computer and an internet-access. However, E-Learning 2.0 is a new avenue of learning. It may not work in traditional studies systems where the emphasis of the teacher being the all-knowledgeable one and information not coming from the teacher is considered not true. This too is changing as the Internet is expanding rapidly and databases full of reliable information is at our fingertips. E-Learning 2.0 may not happen now, but it is slowly gaining momentum to take over conventional e-learning!
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Hey! Wait a moment! Isn’t what we are doing now E-Learning 2.0?
*scratches head*
References
Understanding E-Learning 2.0 by Tony Karrer http://www.learningcircuits.org/2007/0707karrer.html
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