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To use or not to use web 2.0 in higher education

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The purpose of this paper is both to promote scholarly inquiry about the need of a new type a pedagogy (Web 2.0 based) and the development / adoption of best practice in teaching and learning with web 2.
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This article is published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.The article was published on 2009-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 365 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Web standards & Web 2.0.

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El uso de las tic y herramientas de la web 2.0 por maestros portugueses de la educación primaria y educación especial: la importancia de las competencias personales

TL;DR: In this article, a study of 200 maestros of the Ensenanza Regular and Educación Especial was conducted to evaluate the use of the TIC and Web 2.0.

Examining guided online peer feedback on L2 writing content and language via Edmodo

TL;DR: Examining guided online peer feedback on L2 writing content and language via Edmodo through master's thesis at the American University in Cairo shows promising results.

Exploring Lightweight Knowledge Sharing Technologies for Functional Product Development

TL;DR: In this article, the authors move away from offering just physical artifacts to becoming providers of functional products, or Product-Service Systems (PSS), implies inevitable changes in the way engineering knowledge is iden...
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E-learning 2.0

TL;DR: Learning objects were depicted as being like lego blocks or atoms as discussed by the authors, little bits of content that could be put together or organized, and standards bodies have refined the concept of learning objects into a rigorous form [http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12] and have provided specifications on how to sequence and organize these pieces of content into courses and package them for delivery.
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Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?

Bryan Alexander
- 01 Jan 2006 - 
TL;DR: These sections of the Web break away from the page metaphor and are predicated on microcontent, which means that reading and searching this world is significantly different from searching the entire Web world.

Social software and participatory learning: Pedagogical choices with technology affordances in the Web 2.0 era

TL;DR: The two-way Web has arrived, accompanied by a raft of affordances that expand how the authors communicate, communicate, learn and create knowledge.

Can we use twitter for educational activities

TL;DR: The authors are trying to provide arguments for using Twitter as microblogging platform / social network in education, underlining its advantages, but also possible bad points.
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Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre

Bryan Alexander, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending as discussed by the authors, and it follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid, perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero's journey.