Vive la Révolution: e-Learning 2.0
Laura Ross
If you haven’t heard of e-Learning 2.0 yet, you soon will. The e-learning industry is part of a wider social and cultural revolution that is fast determining the way we access, share and create information. That revolution has its origin in the term Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 started as just a whisper among media folk back in 2004, but now it is a cry of deafening proportions in almost every technology-based industry. Everyone is talking about it, from the most junior programmer to the biggest movers and shakers in software development. And it isn’t a technological revolution that has brought this about, but a social one.
So the term itself is a little misleading – there’s no real update as such to the World Wide Web, but rather in the ways in which people are using it. Of course, there have been advances and improvements to software, but that is almost incidental to a wider cultural change. Anyone, not just software developers, can now make their mark on websites.
Originally, the web used one-directional communication similar to that used by other media…