Web 2.0: Networking Communities to Develop Intellectual Capital in Education 2.0

This paper discusses how education has been transformed from one-teacher-per-class basis (Education 1.0) to Education 2.0, a time and space free educational network of teachers and students who learn from each other and build the intellectual capital which has never existed. We demonstrate how current trends in the world of technology are changing what educators do and how they do it. It is a research study conducted at a university in Canada. Participants were preservice teachers who built knowledge of mathematics and that of pedagogy in a discoursive Web 2.0 design. The results show that technology, when used appropriately, could have the capacity to lead to knowledge building and develop intellectual capital.

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Community building , Education 2.0 , Intellectual capital , Web 2.0