The document discusses the rise of Web 2.0 technologies and their potential applications for learning networks and personalized learning environments. It explores how these new technologies enable more collaborative, immersive, and learner-centered forms of learning compared to traditional online learning models. The document raises questions about how educational institutions should respond to support these new forms of informal, networked, and interest-driven learning.

1. Understanding Learning Networks Stephen Downes, October 28, 2006

2. Web 2.0 O’Reilly: What is Web 2.0?

5. Content Syndication http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/ Web 2.0 is also mostly about

6. RSS - Simplest of Meta-Data What is RSS? Killer App for Education? Pick an Acronym Compare to This

7. How RSS Works http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm

13. Enabling new forms of learning Kathy Sierra

14. E-Learning 2.0 Diagram by Scott Wilson; Downes: E-Learning 2.0

15. Personal Learning Environments http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/100494256 http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/02/16/eduglu-early-whiteboard USB: Study Stick: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/005515.html

16. Read/Write E-Learning http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm

26. The School of The Future… … is a living arts centre (or some such thing)

28. Game Based Learning Types: Branching, Spreadsheet, Game, Lab… http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs =Article&key=1116274375

29. Workflow (Informal) Learning Types: Community of Practice, Environment, Visualization… http://metatime.blogspot.com/

34. Rethinking Learning http://static.flickr.com/109/252157734_9e6c29433b_b.jpg http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540&hl=en