This document discusses the potential opportunities and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies in education. It defines Web 2.0 as social software that enables interactive exchange through creation, collaboration and communication. Some key Web 2.0 services that could benefit teaching and learning are social networking, media sharing, blogging, and accessing collective knowledge through recommendations and tagging. However, Web 2.0 may also disconnect learners from offline realities and distract them from their studies. The document argues that educators must re-imagine practices like teaching, learning, evaluation and curriculum to fully capitalize on Web 2.0 opportunities in an approach called Education 2.0.

1. Web 2.0 for teaching and learning
Dr. Dimitrios Vlachopoulos
University of Roehampton, London
European University Cyprus
Laureate International Universities

2. Index
1. Introduction
2. The concept of web 2.0 technologies
3. Educational opportunities and challenges for web 2.0
4. Education 2.0

3. Introduction
• Growing excitement within the educational
community about web 2.0 technologies
• ‘Web 2.0’ is an umbrella/inclusive term
• Social software
• ‘Interactive’ rather than ‘broadcast’ forms of
exchange

4. Introduction
• Wikipedia≠ Online Encyclopedia
• 3 c’s
Creation, collaboration and communication
• Relation between education and web and vice
versa

5. The concept of Web 2.0
• 2.0 traditional activity has now
adopted a particular set of new tools
• Web 2.0 movement
• Microcontent
• Openess

6. Web 2.0 services
• Socializing through games and virtual worlds
• Media design, sharing and publication
• Reflect through blog, social networks & wikis
• Explore through syndication, recommenders,
folksonomies

7. Important concepts (for education)
associated to web 2.0
• Collaboration
• Publication
• Literacies
• Inquiry

8. Opportunities & Challenges
• New ways of learning
• New types of learners
• New spaces for learning
• Access to knowledge for
the masses
• “Disconnection” of
learners
• ”Distraction from studies”
• Distance students from
the offline realities

9. Can we talk about Education 2.0?
• The “web 2.0 debate”
• Re-imagining educational practice
• TEACHER
• STUDENT
• INSTITUTION
• EVALUATION
• CURRICILUM
• Re-imagining web 2.0

10. Conclusions
• Web 2.0 is an evolving phenomenon
• How can we design web 2.0 to work in education?
• Collaboration between tech-people and
pedagogists

11. Questions?