The Charlottesville Daily Progress has an interesting story today about an engineering professor at the University of Virginia who is using Web 2.0 technology in his teaching and has been awarded a half-million-dollar grant to continue his work.
[UVA engineering professor Ed]Berger’s experiments with Web 2.0 technologies - meaning blogs, podcasts, wikis, video, RSS feeds and more - may be the future of higher education. His efforts have been awarded a three-year $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue exploring the effectiveness of interactive Web-based technology in the college classroom.
Just like the laptop computers being issued to students in middle school, technology seems to be up-ending the teaching process. Nostalgia makes that scary for parents and grandparents. But one of Berger’s fellow instructors says shaking up the process may be a good thing:
“The exciting thing is that developments in technology can act as an agent of change for teaching and learning,” said [Walter]Heinecke. “Traditionally we have not spent much time examining the processes of teaching that can occur in post-secondary institutions. We have simply accepted a 19th-century transmission model.”
It will be fascinating to see where these technological tools take education.
Posted by Jeff Kraus
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