E-learning; enhanced by communicating and interacting is becoming increasingly accepted and this puts Web 2.0 at the center of the new educational technologies. E-Learning 2.0 emerges as an innovative method of online learning for its incorporation of Web 2.0 tools. For any academic study, the curriculum provides overview of intact learning area. The Curriculum provides overview to content of the Subject. Many institutions place student interaction as a priority of their online curriculum design. It is proved that interaction has a great effect on the students' involvement in learning and acceptance of Curriculum. Students are accepting curriculum that is designed by teacher; whereas E-learning 2.0 enabled Curriculum management system allows student to involve in learning activities. It works as a stimulus and increases their dedication to the Curriculum. While Institute adapts E-Learning 2.0 as Learning Management System, it also provides Social Networking services and provides direct and transparent interaction between students and teachers. This view of the e-Learning 2.0 shifts its focus from LMS to the students, equipping them, with the means to become ever more autonomous, accepting them to make use of these means in solving problems on their own initiative. Curriculum usage will empower student involvement and enhancing E-learning 2.0 spreading. This paper, analyzing implementation E-learning 2.0 for Curriculum management and discusses Opportunities & Challenges for Curriculum over Web 2.0.
With Web 2.0 the Internet becomes a platform of fluid and continuous knowledge exchange. It is a dynamic social network of creation, sharing and consumption. Web 2.0 [1] technology creates innovative learning environments, allowing mentors, teachers & students to interact, collaborate, and create customized web enable elearning experiences and offering an amazing potential to change the way learning, which will accepted by Institutes. E-Learning 2.0 emerges as an innovative method of online learning for its incorporation of Web 2.0 tools. Web 2.0 enable E-Learning 2.0 [2] isn't only about resorting to new technology, it is about a different approach to learning itself, it is a change in perception. Elearning 2.0 makes possible to minimize geographic and time restrictions and mobility concerns.
For any Academic course, always-common approach, Curriculum is designed by Teachers and followed by students. The Curriculum provides overview to content of the Subject. Mostly student follow curriculum as subject learning approach, mostly, student feedback / suggestion for subject learning and learning progress over subject never seems to reach to teachers. Lack of interactivity among students as well as students and teachers do not provide much acceptance and realization of effective curriculum for subject. The Web 2.0 enables E-learning Curriculum Management aims involvement of student as well as realization of effectiveness of curriculum to teachers.
Many online curriculum management systems available, like Blackboard [3], Moodle [4], or WebCT. These all systems provide integrated solutions for faculty to post course content, assignments, and student evaluation.
Rather no provision for student to post their reports, feedback or anything over there. So that present Curriculum Management tools likely to work only as document-centered, allowing instructors to post PowerPoint slides, Word and PDF files, and other course content for students to access.
In addition, course management systems allow students to log in to check grades, submit assignments, or take exams electronically. Teacher responsible for Subject content preparation and provide to student for download or access over these tools. “. Most common uses of these tools for teacher to provide learning material and student grades like to paste over Notice Board. Only advantage is student remotely access these all anytime at anywhere, no possibility to give a single over the same system.
Traditional Classroom interaction among teachers and students is mostly one-way, even on Internet Teachers post Curriculum and student retrieve and read it. Today’s course management systems are not being used to it’s fullest potential. Vision of Web 2.0 based Curriculum Management system is to design “Course for student, course with students” not like earlier tools “built around the course, not the student”. Most common uses are for faculty to distribute handouts and students to check grades. The role that the systems play most often is like that of an advanced photocopier, allowing faculty members to deliver materials to their students with greater ease.
While the traditional curriculum best used for these common tasks, a next-generation curriculum over web 2.0 [5] must be centered on the student’s learning, not the course’s administration. Curriculum on Web 2.0 supplements the traditional curriculum and gives students a forum for collaborating and sharing their knowledge and understanding for the benefit of their classmates. Web 2.0, as a learning platform has its own concerns. Tracking user contributions may be difficult, and if the instructor provides too much structure, that could limit the Elearning 2.0’s effectiveness. An instructor could structure and regulate interaction to such an extent that the Elearning 2.0 can effectively transform it into a strippeddown course management system. But doing so, risks diluting the special qualities that make E-learning 2.0worth using in the first place.
In web 2.0 enabled curriculums reciprocates and comments over web, representing curriculum. In Many Degrees students learn same curriculum but geographically resides away, while use of web 2.0 allows fetching response to each group and providing same to all other member students as well as in teachers also. This proposed way enhances not only student involvement but acceptance also.
The design of online curriculum comprises eight main aspects:
• Synopsis & Introduction of Subject;
• Outline of The Learning Goals;
• Assessment;
Proposed system needs following functions as key elements:
[1] Unified human interface [2] Be able to publish, exchange, share and cooperate on information and knowledge among students and their instructor [3] Be able to support idea generation activities in groups
The interfaces of the current web-based information systems are not unified and cause unnecessary confusion among students and instructors. Therefore the first improvement should be the
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