The new digital shoreline [[electronic resource] ] : how Web 2.0 and millennials are revolutionizing higher education / / Roger McHaney ; foreword by Sir John Daniel

• Autore: McHaney Roger
• Pubblicazione: Sterling, Va., : Stylus Pub., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.1/7344678
• Soggetto topico: Internet in higher education; Web 2.0; Educational change; Generation Y
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Discovering a new shoreline -- Indigenous populations on the shoreline -- The new shoreline's topography: platforms for learning -- The new shoreline's topography: web 2.0 and social learning -- The new shoreline's topography: web 2.0 content, filtering, apps, and emergent behaviors -- What students are finding on the new shore -- Convergence on the new shoreline -- Taking the next step as a teacher.
• Sommario/riassunto: Two seismic forces beyond our control - the advent of Web 2.0 and the inexorable influx of tech-savvy Millennials on campus - are shaping what Roger McHaney calls "The New Digital Shoreline" of higher education. Failure to chart its contours, and adapt, poses a major threat to higher education as we know it. Roger McHaney not only deftly analyzes how Web 2.0 is shaping the attitudes and motivations of today's students, but guides us through the topography of existing and emerging digital media, environments, applications, platforms and devices and the potential they have for disrupting teacher
• Titolo autorizzato: The new digital shoreline
• ISBN: 1-00-344797-X; 1-000-97314-X; 1-003-44797-X; 1-57922-601-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817709803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II