Bringing Web 2.0 into the Learning Environment

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Author(s): Saman Shahryari Monfared (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Peyman Ajabi-Naeini (Simon Fraser University, Canada)and Drew Parker (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 10
Source title: ePedagogy in Online Learning: New Developments in Web Mediated Human Computer Interaction
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elspeth McKay (Cogniware.com.au, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3649-1.ch007

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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Social Networking, or the so-called Web 2.0 phenomenon, is changing the way we use the Internet. In turn, the way we use the Internet is changing the way we work, learn, communicate, and research. This chapter outlines a series of issues, tools, techniques, and pedagogy that may lie behind the process to bring social media into a learning environment. It then concludes with a four-year experience bringing these concepts into a senior undergraduate seminar, and offers observations and conclusions about the efficacy of our approach. Social networking has brought the Web into a conversation. Similarly, the chasm between synchronous and asynchronous learning is closing as the classroom becomes one part of a larger, continuous learning experience.

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