Workshop — HigherEd 2.0: Engineering education using web 2.0 technologies

Web 2.0 technologies and social media have become pervasive elements of modern life, especially for the college-age population. Recent substantial advances in media authoring tools provide powerful platforms for academic content creation-by faculty and students alike. Leveraging these technologies in the service of education presents great promise, but also many challenges. In this workshop, we present hands-on training in the tools and strategies we have developed through the HigherEd 2.0 initiative. A four-university collaboration, HigherEd 2.0 encompasses digital content creation, digital library management, course deployment, and intervention evaluation. This workshop will address each of these elements, and include specific, hand-on training in multimedia development, course blog creation and management, and student creation of sharable digital course content.