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Why Web 2.0 is Important to Higher Education -- Campus Technology

  • It still amazes me that people (educators) feel that "web 2.0" tools are just hype. In it's simplest form YOU ARE USING IT RIGHT NOW IN YOUR COMMENTS! The ability to read something online and post immediate feedback was a first step in Web 2.0 development (e.g., Amazon reviews, etc. 10 years back). You inherit a web voice by being able to comment all over the web, thus adding CONTENT to the web. If you, as an educator, don't incorporate some forms of Web 2.0 tools into your lessons, curriculum, online lear

Why Web 2.0 is Important to Higher Education -- Campus Technology

  • Culturally speaking, with the advent of Web 2.0, the "traditional classroom" with one speaker and many listeners is now an oddity, a throwback, a form that should represent 15 percent of undergraduate interaction with faculty, not 85 percent as it does now. With so many ways to create knowledge now very rapidly and collaboratively, we are freed from the necessity of a singular approach to teaching. It no longer makes sense. If you are a faculty member and you are still walking into the classroom with a lecture in mind and "the points to cover," as I did for many years, you are living in the past, a past that is now obsolete. Granted, your job is easier and the students love it if you just talk, but do you feel right about what you are doing?
  • The new textbook is student work; I'll say it again: The textbook of this age is the work that students generate under your guidance and within your design.
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12 Oct 08

The Chronicle: 10/28/2005: Lectures on the Go

  • The portability of coursecasting, its proponents say, makes the technology ideal for students who fall behind in class or those for whom English is a second language. And some advocates say that coursecasting can be more than just a review tool, that it can also enliven classroom interaction and help lecturers critique themselves.
  • The portability of coursecasting, its proponents say, makes the technology ideal for students who fall behind in class or those for whom English is a second language.
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The Lectures Are Recorded, So Why Go to Class? - Chronicle.com

  • But many professors worry that as soon as recordings are available, classroom seats will collect dust.



    "It's by far the No. 1 fear," says Mark Jones, senior vice president and general manager of Echo360, a company that makes a course-capture system. He says he hears the concern at campus after campus as he makes his pitch to set up recording systems across entire departments or professional schools.



    But proponents of the recordings say those concerns are overblown.

  • At the same time, it is forcing professors to rethink how to use classroom time when basic information can easily be relayed online.
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