Title:	FROM FATIGUE TO ANXIETY? IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL DESIGN IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD
Author(s):	David Mathew
ISBN:	978-989-8533-01-2
Editors:	Bebo White, Pedro Isaías and Flávia Maria Santoro
Year:	2011
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Online learning; anxiety; Web 2.0; Web 3.0; future
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	500
Last Page:	504
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper addresses the implications for educators who are working with Web 2.0 (and anticipating Web 3.0). It argues that as educators moving into a Web 2.0 world, we are likely to experience anxiety. Not only is this anxiety understandable, it is an important part of the educational process (as it is for our learners) and a healthy response to a perception of an older (and worn out) version of the internet that we have known up to now. Anxiety has implications for the design of Web 2.0 educational materials (and beyond); and one argument might be that Web 2.0 is more than a tool for the beginnings of the future of education: it is also, in and of itself, the beginnings of the future of education. It is not only the tool to use, it is something which needs to be understood better itself. Web 1 must be retired. This is one of the ways that a dynamic evolves: the disuse of one model is replaced by the (temporary) overuse of the next model. This paper contends that successful educational Web 2.0 will require more balance and pedagogic poise than was shown throughout some of the early days of online education. What role does the educator play in his own developmental learning of the tools of his trade? And how does this inform his preparations for the learners’ experiences? For my argument I rely on recent successes with the commissioners of two online courses at the University. Both of these commissioners were anxious education developers, but have come around to a way of thinking that includes the potential of web-based learning (at its most up-to-date).
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