The document discusses the potential of Web 2.0 technologies to enhance technology-enabled learning. It presents three major components that will influence this: accessibility due to broadband and mobile devices, usability improvements to devices from 1990-2007, and the rise of Web 2.0. The author cautions that learning will still require active cognitive effort from learners and describes a project called LearnLand that uses Web 2.0 tools like weblogs, tagging, and sharing to create a university-wide blogosphere for social learning. Usability testing was conducted and showed that ease of use is important though a social view is also needed to understand technology adoption.

1. Web 2.0 Technology: Future Interfaces for Technology Enhanced Learning? Martin Ebner Andreas Holzinger Hermann Maurer Graz University of Technology Medical University Graz

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6. Three major components Accessibility Device Usability 1990 - 2007 ⇨ ⇨ ⇨ Broadband Mobile Devices Web 2.0

7. Not a technical view Learning will not easier as before, because learning is an active cognitive process on the part of the learner, where knowledge and understanding is constructed by the learner .

8. The Project LearnLand

9. TU Graz LearnLand Universitywide Blogosphere based on ELGG (http://elgg.org) php / mySQL Various components

10. Weblog

11. Community Weblog

12. Tagging

13. Picture Gallery

14. Bookmark sharing

15. Usability Tests Thinking aloud Video analyses Three rounds / 5 typical end users each 10 typical tasks to each user

16. Discussion Ease of use aspect as precondition

17. But we need also a social view … Technology Adoption Life Cycle (according to Moore), adopted to social use of Web 2.0 Technologies

18. Endstatement Nowadays, we need to think about what we write and not how we write. Even more - how we start to write, reflect and express ourselves within a worldwide community.

19. WG SOCIAL LEARNING Computer and Information Services Graz University of Technology Martin Ebner [email_address]