This document discusses the opportunities and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies in education. It defines Web 2.0 as technologies that enable user collaboration, communication, and content creation through social software like wikis, blogs and social networks. The document outlines how Web 2.0 allows new forms of learning through collaboration, publishing, and exploring online. However, it also notes challenges like students becoming distracted or disconnected from offline learning. Finally, it proposes that Education 2.0 could reimagine teaching by leveraging Web 2.0 tools to change teacher and student roles, institutional structures, and curriculum design.

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. References
• Anderson, P. (2007) What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education.
www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf
• Franklin, T., Van Harmelen, M. (2007). Web 2.0 for content for learning and teaching in higher education. JISC
www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitalrepositories/web2-contentlearningand-teaching.pdf
• Freedman, T. [ed] (2006) ‘Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW worldwide web’
www.terrfreedman.org.uk/db/web2/
• O’Reilly, T. (2005) ‘What Is web 2.0? Design patterns and business models for the next generation of software’
www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
• Shirky, C. (2003) ‘Social software and the politics of groups’ www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html

11. Questions?