When preparing my speech about The Web 2.0 and the role of the University for the UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning Fourth International Seminar: Web 2.0 and Education, I gathered a good bunch of references to prepare what I wanted to say. You can find all the references I used — and some more, added after — after this words. But as this is an evolving selection, the up-to-date version of this list can always be consulted here: A Reader on Web 2.0 and Education. Feel free to write back to me with proposals for inclusion in the list and/or corrections for found errors.
The collection is far more than just “Education” or “University” or “Web 2.0” but pretends to give a framework comprehensive enough to approach the Education 2.0 phenomenon. I personally think that a good approach to Education 2.0 should include:
- digital capacity building, including the zilliion different digital literacies: technological, informational, media, e-awareness…
- team working
- digital identity, presence on the Net, e-Portfolios
- creation and importance of social networks and connectivism
- the digital natives concept
- long life learning and student-centered learning
- open educational resources
- …
To which I would add Business 2.0:
- creation based on gift economies
- distributed creation and the wisdom of crowds
- entering the conversation with the consumers… and the prosumers
- …
And a longest etcaetera of concepts, hypes, buzzwords and so — easy to see this is just a superficial reflection, not a deep analysis of the concept. Of course, the categories are arbitrary and just a means not to have 47 references one after the other without a break:
Economy
Digital Literacy & Digital Media
White, D. (2007). Results of the ‘Online Tool Use Survey´ undertaken by the JISC funded SPIRE project. Oxford: David White. Retrieved March 19, 2007 from http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2007/03/16/some-real-data-on-web-20-use