Title :
Cultivating the Web 2.0 jungle
Author :
Bhattacharya, Madhumita ; Dron, Jon
Author_Institution :
Massey Univ., Palmerston North
Abstract :
The quality of a learning process is not something that is delivered to a learner by an online provider but rather constitutes a process of co-production between the learner and the learning-environment. Embedding the technologies into the fabric of an institution enables sustainable advances in educational practice for the benefit of our learners. To some extent Web 2.0 tools are available to cater to the needs of diverse population of student. As discussed in the paper by Dron and Bhattacharya use of these tools give rise to number of other issues and problems. This paper considers ways of overcoming some of these problems, partly through reflective processes for teacher and learner, partly through approaches to capturing higher level design goals and partly through technological fixes.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; Web 2.0 jungle; learning-environment; online provider; Cultural differences; Educational technology; Fabrics; Least squares approximation; Monitoring; Optical coupling; Portfolios; Reflection; Technology management; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2007. ICALT 2007. Seventh IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Niigata
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2916-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2007.109