Title :
Workshop — HigherEd 2.0: Engineering education using web 2.0 technologies
Author :
Berger, Edward ; Krousgrill, Charles
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
Web 2.0 technologies and social media have become pervasive elements of modern life, especially for the college-age population. Recent substantial advances in media authoring tools provide powerful platforms for academic content creation-by faculty and students alike. Leveraging these technologies in the service of education presents great promise, but also many challenges. In this workshop, we present hands-on training in the tools and strategies we have developed through the HigherEd 2.0 initiative. A four-university collaboration, HigherEd 2.0 encompasses digital content creation, digital library management, course deployment, and intervention evaluation. This workshop will address each of these elements, and include specific, hand-on training in multimedia development, course blog creation and management, and student creation of sharable digital course content.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; authoring systems; computer aided instruction; digital libraries; educational courses; engineering education; further education; multimedia computing; HigherEd 2.0; Web 2.0 technology; academic content creation; college-age population; course blog creation; course blog management; course deployment; digital content creation; digital library management; engineering education; four-university collaboration; hand-on training; intervention evaluation; media authoring tools; multimedia development; pervasive elements; sharable digital course content; social media; Conferences; Education; Internet; Media; Multimedia communication; Web sites; content creation; evaluation of technology interventions; multimedia; social media;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6261-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2010.5673404
