Gabriela Grosseck CIE May 2007 Bucharest

Web 2.
0 In Higher Education:
Opportunities And Challenges
Gabriela Grosseck
West University of Timisoara
ggrosseck@socio.uvt.ro
Agenda
• What is Web 2.0?
• Opportunities and
limitations
• How does Web 2.0

apply to education?
• Some conclusions
W
E
B
2.0
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The social use
of the Web
allow people to
collaborate
To get actively
involved
in creating
content
To generate knowledge
To share information online
The user controls / creates
his / her personal
data and information
Blog
Wikis
RSS
Social bookmarking
Podcasting
Social networking
Let’s talk about WEB 2.0 technologies …
Advantages
• reduction of costs
• flexibility, as far as the possibility of
choosing technologies is concerned
• easier and faster access to information,
when and where it is needed
• the integration of a variety of
technologies in the teaching-learning
activities
Advantages
• extensive opportunities of information and
collaboration
• possibility to control access to resources by
authenticating users
• sharing accumulated experiences and resources
• independence from the platform
• compatibility with the elements of the educational
field and the existing contextual dynamics
• the low level of complexity needed for use (minimum
skills in using the Internet)
Advantages
• reliability in continuous usage
• redistribution of effort, so that less and less time and

energy are spent during search and information management
• the increase in number of modalities of use and the
heterogeneity of didactic practices and of types of formation
• the possibility to test the existing didactic practices, without great

changes in the current modus operandi
• the major focus on didactic innovation, and not on the
technology per se
• creating digital content

Disadvantages
• an Internet connection is required

• it hides behind it a sum of technologies and
concepts which are still insufficiently defined
• it is based on Ajax
• it determines variations of interpretation
between types of browsers
• it offers free things, in open-source structures,
with a rather vague significance
Disadvantages
• it leads to a low quality of the actual
content
• it promotes amateurishness by
invaluable contents generated by users
• it gives everyone the opportunity to
complain, thus creating a community
without rules;
• it has monetary quantification (the
Internet as a business - Google);
Disadvantages
• it is a kind of second-hand Web
• it has limited security
• the speed of programs is incomparably
lower than the one of desktop programs
• it doesn’t mean anything per se, it is just
electronic junk
• the extremely diversified offer of
technologies
• time and knowledge invested in the
Web 2.0 technologies
Some educational applications of Web2.0 tools
BLOGS: Blogger
• real-world writing experiences

• pull class blogs together
• quickly give feedback
• students use peer networks to develop
their own knowledge
• update new information
• using comments
WIKIS: Wikispaces
• student projects
• collaborating on ideas
• organizing documents and resources
• presentation tool
• group research project for a specific idea
• manage school and classroom documents
• collaborative handout for students
• classroom discussion and debate area
• place to aggregate web resources
RSS: Google ReaderRSS
/ Bloglines
• professional development
• time saving
• updated information in my teaching area
• information coming from constraining sources
• sharing my work with other educators
• replace traditional email mailing lists, reducing
email overload
• used to keep course specific webpages current
and relevant
Social bookmarking: del.icio.us

• create a set of resources
• conduct research and share that research with my
peers
• track author and book updates
• groups of students doing a classroom project
sharing their bookmarks, I subscribed to their
RSS feed to see the direction of their research
• rate and review bookmarks to help with students
decide on usefulness of resources
• setup a group tag in order to share educational
resources
• share one del.icio.us account between a number
of different subject specific educators in order to
share resources with each other etc.
Conclusions?
I hope that all the actors from the educational field

(teachers, tutors, trainers, administrators, or those
responsible for policies) will find the Web 2.0
technologies efficient and promising both for
the educational process and for self development
Photos from Flickr
• Slide 1 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=83087299&size=o
• Slide 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniele_m/496435189/
• Slide 3 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=88542281&context=pool-54833441@N00&size=l
• Slide 7 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=467935625&size=l
• Slide 8 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id
=256508934&context=set-72157594306024718&size=l
• Slide 9 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=188111704&size=oa51
=199807972&context=pool-54833441@N00&size=o
• Slide 14 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubys_moon/88915001/
• Slide 16 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=274003887&context=pool-54833441@N00&size
=o
=158043265&context=pool-54833441@N00&size=o
• Slide 21 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=107215316&context=pool-54833441@N00&size=l

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• What is Web 2.0?

• How does Web 2.0

• redistribution of effort, so that less and less time and

• the possibility to test the existing didactic practices, without great

• creating digital content

• an Internet connection is required

• real-world writing experiences

Social bookmarking: del.icio.us

I hope that all the actors from the educational field

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