Education 2.0 : the learningweb revolution and the transformation of the school / Leonard J. Waks.

9781612050355 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1612050352 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781612052885 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1612052886 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781612052892 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1612052894 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1612050360
9781612050362

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]

English

xvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm

LB1044.87 .W35 2014

371.33/44678

Thirty years of spirited school reforms have failed to improve our schools and instead have left our public school systems in disarray. Meanwhile, employment prospects for high school and college graduates are fading, and the public is losing faith in its schools. The education paradigm inherited from the Industrial Era is in crisis. In the last decade, however, the Internet and new Web 2.0 technologies have placed the entirety of human knowledge in the hands of everyone. What will our educational institutions make of this unprecedented flood of Web-based learning resources? How can schools be transformed to accommodate the new possibilities for personal and social learning?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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