Next-Generation Educational Web

Abstract

The paper proposes the characterization of a converging approach for adult learning in both corporate and institutional environments and briefly presents iCamp - innovative, inclusive, interactive & intercultural learning Campus - project as the first implementation of an actual Next Generation Educational Web, supported by the emergent Web 2.0 “paradigm” and the social software technology behind it. It is intended to show you how the key elements under this blurry umbrella-like concept of Web 2.0 permeate the educational domain, allowing us to develop innovative pedagogical models, designed to be the basis of higher education, or adult learning in the same terms. The paper shows the first stages of our research efforts in iCamp through an integrated pedagogical model for supporting both, the traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) / Learning Object Respositories (LOR), and the Personal Educational Environments (PLE) that comprise blogging and wiki tools as well as social networking services.