This is my first post this week and pulls a thought from several weeks ago.
Our class has talked about using Web 2.0 as a learning platform that offers global scope. I'm seeing evidence that this idea is true. Learning can happen anywhere, anytime by anyone.
Unfortunately, I'd looked at Web 2.0 from the perspective of a college student. We talked about Web 2.0 Learners, digital literacy skills, E-Books and E-Book Readers, blended and fully online learning, Open Source Software. All of these have been show to contribute to individual learning, some in significant ways.
What I hadn't considered until last week is that all of these characteristics can contribute to organizational learning, not just individual learning in a post-secondary setting. Organizations can take advantage of the same range of Web 2.0 capabilities that an individual student can. Reading how organizations collaborate, innovate with individuals outside of their organizational boundaries in Don Tapscott's Wikinomics is just one example. In the end, organizations can build intellectual property/knowledge with the same Web 2.0 tools/techniques as an individual student.
I'm going to start asking two questions as the semester continues to unfold. One is how can an individual learn from this Web 2.0 concept, but the second is how can an organization learn.
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Steve:
ReplyDeleteI agree with your observation concerning broadening the horizons for OER and OCW to groups and even large organizations. There is so much information available across all genres that everyone can benefit at some time or other. I was especially impressed with the iTunes U that is a sub-site from iTunes. There are lectures, texts, videos, etc from Featured Providers such as Edutopia, Library of Congress, Open University, over 100 Colleges and Universities that are available free for download to iPods and iPhones thru the iTunes U website. I'm anxious to check this out further as well as many of the other Open and Free sites we've seen in this week's class session and forum posts.