Abstract
Given ever-changing societal and professional demands, lifelong learning is recognized as a critical educational goal. With postsecondary students' increased demand for online learning opportunities and programs, postsecondary educators face the challenge of preparing students to be lifelong contributing members of professional communities of practice online and at a distance. The emergence of powerful Web 2.0 technologies and tools has the potential to support educators' instructional goals and objectives associated with students' professional preparation and the development of lifelong learning skills and dispositions. In this chapter, the authors explain how postsecondary educators can use the Web 2.0 technologies associated with blogging, social networking, document co-creation, and resource sharing to create intrinsically motivating learning opportunities that have the potential to help students develop the skills and dispositions needed to be effective lifelong learners.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning |
| Subtitle of host publication | Next Generation Environments |
| Pages | 292-315 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Web 2.0
- blogging
- document co-creation
- lifelong learning
- metacognition
- metacognitive awareness
- postsecondary
- resource sharing
- self-directed learning
- social networking
- social networks
EGS Disciplines
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Instructional Media Design
- Online and Distance Education