The power of cooperation!

Posted on | September 29, 2008 | No Comments

WEB 2.0 is a fact of life.  WEB 3.0 has been tentatively defined in WIKIPEDIA as…

Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.

The problem is that we have a current group of students going through our higher education systems world wide that have only a passing familiarity with WEB 2.0 and little to no idea how it might fit into the world they may soon find themselves looking to work in.

What if an instructional designer/web guru and a communication professor/idea rock star could put their skills together and build an entire class around WEB 2.0 and the essence of communication, telling a good story? WEB 2.5!

The starting point is being called Learning 2.0 but it is really much more, maybe the most important application of university curriculum these students will ever have participated in.

What is more remarkable is the cooperation between two very divergent parts of the academy to make it happen.

Cooperation is the key to all learning!

What will be interesting is how these students adapt and morph the ideas being presented to adapt to their own learning,sharing,communicating and storytelling environment!

I am very interested in how the ideas of web 2.0, and beyond, might be used to relate to mobile communication technology.

And again TWITTER comes to mind.

There will be a lot more to come based on this experiment.

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