Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
Bryan Alexander is Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). Comments on this article can be sent to the author at bryan.alexander@nitle.org.
The term is audacious: Web 2.0. It assumes a certain interpretation of Web history, including enough progress in certain directions to trigger a succession. The label casts the reader back to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s unleashing of the World Wide Web concept a little more than a decade ago, then asks: What forms of the Web have developed and become accepted enough that we can conceive of a transition to new ones?