
"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 |
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Student Centered |
User Centered |
| Collaborative | Collaborative |
| Discovery of information | Information Sharing |
| Risk taking | Social Media |
| Less lecture |
Content Creation |
| Virtual community | |