Web 2.0 Offers Opportunities for Growth

Gartner Says Web 2.0 Offers Many Opportunities for Growth, But Few Enterprises Will Immediately Adopt All Aspects Necessary for Significant Business Impact
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Analysts Examine How Organizations Can Navigate Through the Web 2.0

Hype During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, May 14-18, in San Francisco

While Web 2.0 offers many new opportunities for companies to grow their business, few enterprises realize how to implement the full range of capabilities to succeed. By 2008, the majority of Global 1000 companies will quickly adopt several technology-related aspects of Web 2.0, but will be slow to adopt the aspects of Web 2.0 that have a social dimension, and the result will be a slow impact on business, according to Gartner, Inc.

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Web2.0Slides

Web2.0Slides is a self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites. It’s categorized by tags and sorted alphabetically.

What’s cool about it? You can click on any site in the left-hand column to pause the slide show and surf around. When you’re done, simply click PLAY, and it will begin right where you left off. Perfect for Web 2.0 couch ‘taters. But if you’re antsy and want to click around on sites, go right ahead—it won’t stop the show.

Podcast: Innovation and Rise of the User

Gartner Symposium: Martin Reynolds On Innovation and Rise of the User. PodTech’s Jason Lopez sat down with Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds to talk about Sun Microsystems, Apple and mark of successful companies.

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E-learning - Seconds out, round two

The explosion of new web services - such as ‘blogs’ and ‘wikis’ - has led many to believe that the internet is now entering a second phase. It’s finally beginning to resemble a truly interactive learning tool, says Stephen O’Hear.”

Events in Silicon Valley have, traditionally, had a trickle-down effect on teaching and learning. But with the arrival of the internet and teachers who write blogs regularly, the valley is beginning to have a more immediate influence on education. One idea being banded about the “blogosphere” is that we are experiencing the second phase of the development of the web or “web 2.0″, with the explosion of new web services, applications, and business models that are helping to reshape the net.

What Lies Beyond E-Learning?

This article is based on Marc Rosenberg’s new book, ‘Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Performance,’ just published by Pfeiffer. Just when we thought we had e-learning all figured out, it’s changing again. After years of experimentation and the irrational exuberance that characterized the late 1990s, we find our views of e-learning more sober and realistic. This is a good sign; we can make more rational forecasts of how the field will evolve. It also presents some challenges, and the direction we are heading may not be the path we originally thought we were on. For the most part, the e-learning changes and challenges that are fast approaching will help propel the field into a new evolutionary phase—if we’re open-minded and ready to recognize them. Essentially, we will witness six fundamental, and somewhat interrelated, transformations in the field over the next few years:

1. E-learning will become more than ‘e-training.’
2. E-learning will move to the workplace.
3. Blended learning will be redefined.
4. E-learning will be less course-centric and more knowledge-centric.
5. E-learning will adapt differently to different levels of mastery.
6. Technology will become a secondary issue.”

Anschluss verpassen?

Für alteingesessene Netznutzer ist Nachsitzen angesagt. Eine E-Mail-Adresse zu besitzen und unfallfrei einen Web-Browser bedienen zu können genügt nicht mehr, um »drin« zu sein. »Social Software«, soziale Dienste und Anwendungen, verändern das Internet gerade gewaltig. Auch viele Zeitgenossen, die sich im Grunde ihres Herzens für Netz-affin halten, verpassen den Anschluss – und wissen es selbst nicht einmal. »Es entsteht gerade eine riesige Kluft. Wer jetzt nicht dabei ist, dem entgehen wesentliche Möglichkeiten«, befürchtet Thomas Burg. Der Wissenschaftler leitet das Institut für Neue Medien an der Donau-Universität Krems. Er warnt angesichts des behäbigen Verhaltens der Internet-Nutzer im deutschsprachigen Raum vor einer »Digitalen Spaltung zweiter Ordnung«.”

Web 2.0 and Education

‘The idea is to someway end the separation between learning and living ‘ - Podcast #5: Talking with Stephen Downes about Online Learning and Web 2.0 (Rwall’s Blog: August 23, 2005). Thanks to recent ICT developments, there are now available a host of new web services and applications generally categorised as elements of Web 2.0 , most of which seem to have interesting impications for the organisation of educational resources and the delivery of learning.

In previous issues, we have considered some early manifestations of Web 2.0 phenomena such as weblogs and RSS - we’ll revisit these some time soon; more recent entries onto the Web 2.0 stage such as podcasts and wikis will also warrant individual attention. However, in this edition of WWWTools for Education we’ll try to fill in the background with a broad sweep across the Web 2.0 field and what it may offer in educational practice.”

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