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Education 2.0?Designing the web forteaching and learning
 A Commentary by the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme
 
 This Commentary is the first contribution from the Technology Enhanced Learningphase of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP-TEL). Thisphase was launched in 2007, and currently comprises eight interdisciplinaryprojects with funding of around £12 million. We are grateful to two researchcouncils for this support – the Economic and Social Research Council and theEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.We aim to produce a series of Commentaries throughout the life of our work on Technology EnhancedLearning, which is currently scheduled to last until 2012. The speed of technological innovation is becoming ever more rapid and each wave of innovation presentseducators with opportunities and challenges. Innovation gives technologists a chance to reflect on theirpractice and how the technology might be adapted to good educational effect. What is rarer and moredifficult is for educators and technologists to collaborate in asking how teaching and learning might be mademore productive and efficient with technology, what exactly that technology might be, and how it mightimpinge on what is taught and to whom. These are some of the challenges addressed by TLRP-TEL.Web 2.0 is a reality. Education 2.0 is an aspiration. I hope this Commentary will play its part in transformingthe web into a technology that can shape a radically new vision of teaching and learning in the 21st century.Richard NossDirector, TLRP-TELLondon Knowledge LabUniversity of London
 
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Introduction 4What are web 2.0 technologies and why do they matter? 6Educational hopes and fears for web 2.0 10Learning and virtual worlds 13Learning and social networking 18Web 2.0 - future issues and technologies 22Education 2.0? 24
 This Commentary has been edited by Neil Selwyn on behalf of TLRP, with contributions by Neil Selwyn, Charles Crook, Diane Carr,Patrick Carmichael, Richard Noss and Diana Laurillard (October 2008).For further information on the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of TLRP, see http://www.tlrp.org/telBibliographic details for all sources referred to in this Commentary are contained in the web-based version downloadable from:http://www.tlrp.org/pub/commentaries.html
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