What is Web 2.0 Ideas, technologies and implications for education

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surrounding ‘Web 2.0′ and to report on the implications this may have for the UK …… new technologies that are developed on the basis of Web 2.0 ideas, …

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Technology & Standards Watch
What is Web 2.0?
Ideas, technologies and implications for
education
by
Paul Anderson
This report was peer reviewed by:
Mark Hepworth
Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Brian Kelly
Policy and Advice Team Leader and Web Focus
UKOLN
Randy Metcalfe
Manager, OSSWatch
University of Oxford
Lawrie Phipps
Programme Manager, Users and Innovation
JISCJISC Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 Web 2.0
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Web 2 Executive summary
Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global
information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a
read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a
feeling that the Web is entering a ’second phase’-a new, ‘improved’ Web version 2.0. But how
justified is this perception?
This TechWatch report was commissioned to investigate the substance behind the hyperbole
surrounding ‘Web 2.0′ and to report on the implications this may have for the UK Higher and Further
Education sector, with a special focus on collection and preservation activities within libraries. The
report argues that by separating out the discussion of Web technologies (ongoing Web development
overseen by the W3C), from the more recent applications and services (social software), and attempts
to understand the manifestations and adoption of these services (the ‘big ideas’), decision makers will
find it easier to understand and act on the strategic implications of ‘Web…