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Online Anxiety: Implications for Educational Design in a Web 2.0 World

Online Anxiety: Implications for Educational Design in a Web 2.0 World
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Author(s): David Mathew (Centre for Learning Excellence, University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 13
Source title: Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)and Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2970-7.ch015

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Abstract

This chapter argues that as educators moving into a Web 2.0 world, we are likely to experience anxiety, which is an important part of the educational process (as it is for our learners). It is also a response to a perception of an older and worn out version of the internet. Anxiety has implications for the design of Web 2.0 educational materials. 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. Web 2.0 is about learning from the learner, and this chapter asks: What role does the educator play in his/her own developmental learning of the tools of the trade? How does this inform his/her preparations for the learners’ experiences? The chapter also argues that in addition to online educational environments owning their own systems of localized logic and systems of internal rules, they are also sentient systems.

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