OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
It also resonates with the earlier TIME cover feature, "How to Build a Student for the 21st Century,"[1] including references to "Learning 2.0."
The concept of Web 2.0 is still evolving, although the term is in wide use (96.6 million hits on the term "Web 2.0" in Google). A good overview is available at the O'Reilly website;[2] from that article we have borrowed Figure 5 to give the reader a general flavor of the attributes of Web 2.0. A short video entitled "Web 2.0—The Machine is Us/ing Us" available at the YouTube site conveys a visual impression of what "Web 2.0" implies.[3]
Figure 5—Attributes of Web 2.0 (from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html)
- ↑ TIME magazine, December 18, 2006, pp. 50–56.
- ↑ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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