Reading 7: E-learning 2.0 - By Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada

This was an interesting article and covers the subject of E-learning in a short and concise manner. The way that the web has been changing over the last decade has seen some significant changes to the way we use, process and understand the information readily available on the net. Web 2.0 has played a key part in the development of these knowledge based systems along with the sharing philosophy used by them.

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I believe that this was a likely outcome from the days of chat rooms, gaming forums and other such site of yesteryears web. The idea of learning this way from multiple sources of information is far more beneficial than conventional teaching method of textbooks alone and Involves some interactions from the users.



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