Web 2.0 technologies are being adopted across universities in a bottom-up, non-systematic way. There is no single blueprint for implementation. Critical issues include ensuring all students, faculty and staff have access to technology and information literacy skills. Ongoing drivers of change include tradition, environmental factors, diversity, richer educational experiences, open source materials, and skills development. Over time, the relationship between faculty and students may change to recognize each other's expertise and work together, with students driving this change through their experience with online communities.

1. Web 2.0
For the 21st Century Learner

2. Web 2.0 Uses in Higher Ed
• Web 2.0 technologies are being deployed across a
broad spectrum of university activities
• Deployment is in no way systematic and the drive is
principally bottom up
• There is no blueprint for implementation of Web 2.0
technologies, and each is currently deciding its own
path
• It feeds on professional interest and enthusiasm

3. Critical Issues
• Immediate and Fundamental
• Ongoing Drivers to Change
• Fundamental Over Time

4. Immediate and
Fundamental
• Digital Divide (Learning with and/or through
technology)
- Ensuring access to technology for all and the
development of practical skills in its use, not only for
students but for faculty and staff (P.D.)
• Information Literacy (Web Awareness)
-Ensuring they possess the skills and understanding to
search, authenticate and critically evaluate material
from the range of appropriate sources

5. Ongoing Drive to Change
• Tradition (building a bridge between Social Media and
Learning)
• Environmental Factors ( going digital)
• Diversity (The sense of being a contributing member)
• Richer Educational Experience (active learning)
• Practice in School (PBL supported by technology)
• Open Source Materials (Free element of paid education)
• Skills Development (communication, participation, networking,
sharing)

6. Fundamental Over Time
• Don’t lecture … facilitate !
- Renegotiating the relationship between faculty and
student to bring about a situation where each
recognizes and values the other’s expertise and
capability and works together to capitalize on it.

7. Times they are a
Changin’…
• Incoming students with strong sense of communities
of interest linked in their own social worlds, and with
a disposition to share and participate. It has also
made them impatient with a preference for quick
answers with a casual approach to evaluating
information and deriving knowledge
• They find a world that is hierarchical, introvert,
guarded, careful, precise and measured
• The two worlds are currently co-existing, but the
students are driving the change