Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Lifelong Learning

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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 have 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, we 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. A pre-print of the article is available online @ http://www.patricklowenthal.com/publications/LLLandWeb20preprint.pdf

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BackgroundBackground

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"Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn." 

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Lifelong LearningLifelong Learning

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Self-directed LearningSelf-directed Learning

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MetacognitionMetacognition

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Lifelong LearningLifelong Learning

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StrategiesStrategies

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Microsharing & Social NetworkingMicrosharing & Social Networking

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Doc. Co-creation & Resource Doc. Co-creation & Resource SharingSharing

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BloggingBlogging

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Future Future DirectionsDirections

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Implications & Future DirectionsImplications & Future Directions

roads? Where we’re going,we don’t need roads

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Learn w/ UsLearn w/ Us

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Other Papers & ResearchOther Papers & ResearchDunlap, J. C., & Lowenthal, P. R. (2011). Learning, unlearning, and relearning: Using Web 2.0 technologies to support the development of lifelong learning skills. In G. D. Magoulas (Ed.), E-infrastructures and technologies for lifelong learning: Next generation environments. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 

Lowenthal, P. R., & Thomas, D. (2010). Death to the dropbox: Rethinking student privacy and public performance. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 33(3).

Dunlap, J. C., & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Horton hears a tweet. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 32(4). 

Dunlap, J. C., & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to enhance social presence. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2), 129-136. 

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