Comments on: What is Web 2.0?

By: Web 2.0 and the Workplace : does the Enterprise 2.0 exist in real « Learning in the web 2.0 era

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:09:55 +0000

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Learning 2.0 : a new learning culture « Learning in the web 2.0 era — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:48:21 +0000

[...] to a notion which is underlying to the participatory culture and web 2.0 in general, that being the belief in collective intelligence. Web 2.0 users belong to this participatory culture because they “believe their contributions [...]

By: kschlenker

kschlenker — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:59:39 +0000

“you can’t think of web 2.0 without first defining whether you’re talking in a B-2-B, or B-2-C or a C-2-C sense”
Executivezen, I think this thought is very useful in terms of understanding perspectives in making a business model out of Web 2.0. I will keep this distinction in mind for a later definition of such a model, and to try to understand what type of model could work for executive education.
Your thoughts got me into realising that my definition was too superficial for a good start of a study on a the value of web 2.0 for education. I revised it to add an essential notion which needs to be discussed to assess this value, the Web 2.0 ideology.

By: kschlenker

kschlenker — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:48:51 +0000

L. Schlenker,

“Would the next step in your analysis be suggesting that schools (or customers) map out the existing state (”current state”) of each process, and the desired future state? Would the gap between the two point out what opportunities might exist for a service strategy based on Web 2.0?”

This is a very great way to represent the potential value of a 2.0 service strategy indeed. I will use this model to structure my study once I develop an analysis of specific business schools’ offer and ways forward using web 2.0.

By: Web 2.0 as a driver for change in Higher Education? « Learning in the web 2.0 era

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:24:15 +0000

[...] expand upon a previous post addressing the meaning of web 2.0, the question of whether we can value learning 2.0 for educational purposes mainly relies on the [...]

By: executivezen

executivezen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:47:42 +0000

… for B-2-B, consider the the b-school supplying knowledge and competence-enhancements to corporations and organisations where these organisations are considered as whole entities. For B-2-C, consider b-schools supplying the above to individual learners, individual participants on executive education programmes. And for C-2-C, consider b-schools being out of the loop altogether; where learning takes place peer-to-peer, learner-to-learner, where this learning is not necessarily mediated via a b-school or any institution but where, inter alia, institutions may draw from the knowledge of that peer-to-peer network – if it can.

This to me seems like a more useful approach to mapping the nodes of web 2.0 onto the nodes of a networked approach to learning.

By: Executivezen

Executivezen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:00:33 +0000

I was talking to a senior IT player, and I asked him what he thought about web 2.0, and the fact that the term was used both in an undifferentiated manner and as if web 2.0 were an actual ‘thing.’ His reply was interesting: he said that, as a business involved in the delivery and promotion of technology, you can’t think of web 2.0 without first defining whether you’re talking in a B-2-B, or B-2-C or a C-2-C sense. I’d never thought of it this way before, and it got me to thinking that this might be a useful way to convcieve of applying the vague concept of web 2.0 more specifically…

By: L. Schlenker

L. Schlenker — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:30:43 +0000

Although your mindmap is perhaps too small to read, a process regroups a number of activities and tasks and by definition implies inputs, outputs, costs and benefits. The inputs are the needs of the customer, either at the level of the student or at the customer organization. The output is the product or service that meets this need. The costs are the resources used to produce the service, and the benefits are measured either in savings (time, resource) or in terms of innovation, passion, etc. Would the next step in your analysis be suggesting that schools (or customers) map out the existing state (“current state”) of each process, and the desired future state? Would the gap between the two point out what opportunities might exist for a service strategy based on Web 2.0?