Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?

By Bryan N. Alexander. 2006

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The appropriation and repurposing of social technologies in higher education (2009, background): “…been written on the emergent modes of communication, meaning-making and community formation enabled by 'Web 2.0' within the university (for example, Alexander 2006; Anderson 2007), but very little formal research that is focused around the application of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education…”
Why web 2.0 is good for learning and for research: principles and prototypes (2008, methodology): “This domain knowledge is then exploited by the learning management system, which distinguishes our work from usages of social bookmarking as described in [2], where groups of lectures use a joint collection of bookmarks.”
Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning (2012, background): “0 characterizing themes such as openness, personalization, collaboration, social networking, social presence, user-generated content, the people'sWeb, and collective wisdom, and demarcating areas of higher education where a potentially significant transformation of practice is underway (Alexander, 2”
Cultivating the Disposition to Understand in 21st Century University Education. (2011, background): “Alexander (2006) notes that social bookmarking software (the most well know example is del.icio.us) allows users to tag online sources with their own labels, and to share these tags with others.”
Social media big data analytics: A survey (2019, unknown): “The popularity of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the contents of the web from publisher-to user-created contents (Alexander, 2006).”
'Disruptive technologies', 'pedagogical innovation': What's new Findings from an in-depth study of students' use and perception of technology (2008, background): “…the data is the extent to which students are capitalising on the social affordances of technologies, much heralded under the banner of Web 2.0 (Alexander 2006), in terms of peer support and communication – the picture emerges very much of a networked, extended communities of learners using a…”
The Three P's of Pedagogy for the Networked Society: Personalization, Participation, and Productivity. (2008, background): “While we must be wary about making assumptions and generalizations, and basing claims on anecdotal evidence (see Lohnes & Kinzer, 2007; Mather, 2007; Owen, 2004), student perspectives are now a well-researched aspect in higher education, and the messages are too frequent to be ignored (Alexander, 20”
The future of e-learning: a shift to knowledge networking and social software (2007, background): “Social software has emerged as a major component of the Web 2.0 movement (Alexander, 2006).”
Mobile learning in review: Opportunities and challenges for learners, teachers, and institutions (2006, unknown): “Equally, the trend towards ‘Web 2.0’ (O’Reilly, 2005), the next iteration of the World Wide Web characterised by open communication and communities’ interaction in the creation of content, is considered as a new wave of innovation for teaching and learning (Alexander, 2006).”
Wiki as a Teaching Tool (2007, background): “Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS feeds have been dubbed 'social software' because they are perceived as being especially connected, allowing users to develop Web content collaboratively and open to the public (Alexander, 2006).”
Social software and participatory learning (2007, background): “…limited to web logs (blogs), wikis, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), podcasting, social networking sites, tag-based folksonomies, and peer-to-peer (P2P) media sharing utilities, are receiving intense and growing interest across all sectors of the education industry (Allen, 2004; Alexander, 2006).”
Open Educational Resources (2010, unknown): “Alexander (2006) gives a similar picture when he describes new technological trends and their impact on higher education, as does Hilton (2006). Unbundling of content, as in the music industry, where sales of separate tunes are replacing sales of CDs, and personalisation of the educational offer is ”