"Active learning refers to techniques where students do more than simply listen to a lecture. Students are DOING something including, discovering, processing, and applying information."
-Kathleen McKinney, Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University
Web 2.0 is..."delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others..."
-Tim O'Reilly
Active Learning is... |
Web 2.0 is... |
Interactive | Interactive |
Engaging | Engaging |
Student Centered |
User Centered |
Collaborative | Collaborative |
Discovery of information | Information Sharing |
Risk taking | Social Media |
Less lecture |
Content Creation |
Virtual community | |