The 21st century networked society
It can be argued that in the 21st century networked society (Burke, 2006) an education fit for the future workplace will require engagement throughout one’s course with the appropriate emerging technologies of the networked society . Managing information flows and fulfilment will require user familiarity and specific knowledge.
Social and Mobile Media Statistics for Higher Education / YouTube
According to the Inquiry into the Changing Learning Experience, (2009), Web 2.0 or the ‘Social Web’ as it is also termed is characterised as follows:
Being accessible through a web browser and “...being supportive and encouraging of user participation in the sharing, consumption and generation of content, including through remixing and repurposing; and also amenable to developments in functionality consistent with user demand...”
(CICLE, 2009, p.15)
The challenge in identifying the technologies that integrate online education into the ‘Social Web ’ is about selecting the most appropriate technologies to create a learning community (Redecker, 2008) or community of practice (Wenger, 2000).