It was inevitable that as soon as version numbers started to be added to the web, learning, education and so on that the temptation would be to spot the next version before it hove onto the horizon. I am having enormous difficulties in putting over the idea of Web 2.0 (with or without the tag) and am horrified that the talk is now of Web 3.0, Learn 3.0 and so on. Web 3.0 seems to be a technical term referring to the intelligent web but Education 3.0 is something else. I found a very good picture of it in this article by Keats and Schmidt in which they describe an educational utopia in which students are active in searching out, remixing and ripping material.
They see Education 3.0 as 'a breakdown of most of the boundaries, imposed or otherwise within education, to create a much more free and open system focused on learning' and use the effective device of a fictional illustration of how this might work in practice at the end of the article.
But sitting here as I am trying to persuade teachers of the value of Web 2.0 (with or without the tag) I sense immediately the counter-argument which they may have concerning this story. For the story deals with art and poetry, feelings and emotions. I have a feeling that the teachers here would challenge me to describe how Education 3.0 could help their students acquire scientific knowledge for example. I have a feeling therefore that a more concrete, mechanical example would have been more convincing.
Keywords: Education 3.0, First Monday, Keats, Schmidt, Web 3.0
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Education 3.0 is not my term. But I agree with you that the example described is Real e-learning 2.0. It seems to me that the major hurdle I face is demonstrating the value of teachers taking on the facilitator role. The people I meet feel very much restricted by a comprehensive curriculum and dare not experiment.
I also think that the idea of learning through external networks, ripping, mixing and re-creating is not reflected in mainstream media or official curriculum authorities here in Denmark and therefore lacks validity in the average teacher's eyes.
The day that the Web2.0 classroom becomes a recognizable educational stereotype is the day that it has become mainstream.
Hello, stumbled on your blog via Google Alerts. I am one of the authors of the Education 3.0 paper. The idea is not so much that Education 3.0 is here, but that it is on the horizon. We are in a very slow moving ship. Hover, where I sit, in Africa, there is time to engineer a form of collaboration that does not yet exist to any great extent. Since the density of Tertiary educators is very low on our Continent, there may be no other way for us to achieve what you take for granted in the Developed world. In the article, we suggest that we can either own it, or we will be passed by. We do have some projects that are looking at remixing, but they are still too young to have anything to report about. We also have some projects doing collaborative degrees. We also have projects that do recognition of PRIOR learning. But we have not yet linked the three of them.
Regards
Derek