Web 2.0

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Web 2.0

Disrupting Ourselves: Cherished Assumptions, New Designs, and the Problem of Learning in Higher Ed - Sponsored by WTC Consulting

January 11, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

Our concept of learning has expanded at a rate far outpacing our notion of teaching, an issue that applies to the design and delivery of learning experiences. This presentation will look at how thi…

Using Web 2.0 Technology to Make Large Classes Seem Smaller

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

While large classes are an economic necessity in higher education, they are often viewed as impersonal and a poor model for learning. This interactive session will demonstrate the results of a coll…

Learner Self-Engagement in Web 2.0 Participatory Learning Environments (Research-Based)

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Learners benefit from blogs and wikis when their use is scaffolded by the instructor and/or course requirements. But if these prompts are missing or poorly designed, will learners self-activate usi…

A Dialogue for Engagement

October 7, 2010

© 2010 Malcolm Brown, Mark Auslander, Kelly Gredone, David Green, Bruce Hull, and Walt Jacobs. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs …

Research on Learner Self-Engagement in a Web 2.0 World: "We Used It How We Wanted To"

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Learners benefit from blogs and wikis when their use is scaffolded by the instructor and/or course requirements. But if these prompts are missing or poorly designed, will learners self-motivate usi…

Creating an Open Web 2.0 Cloud E-Learning Experience

October 15, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Open blogs and cloud platforms such as Facebook have great educational potential. This session will present how Penn State University's reengineering of its Biology 12 introductory biology lab…

7 Things You Should Know About Backchannel Communication

February 9, 2010

Backchannel communication is a secondary conversation that takes place at the same time as a conference session, lecture, or instructor-led learning activity. This might involve students using a …

Twitter Symbiosis: A Librarian, a Hashtag, and a First-Year Seminar (Innovative Practice)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Tweeting in the classroom has started to take off, with some notable examples such as Monica Rankin's history class experiment at UT-Dallas and Cole W. Camplese's classroom backchannel at…

Horton Hears a Tweet

December 22, 2009

By Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of s…

Engaging Students with Engaging Tools

December 22, 2009

Key Takeaways A new course teaching media, mass communication, and political identities in the Middle East and North Africa explored the use of social media in pursuit of effective learning…