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Author McHaney, Roger

Title The New Digital Shoreline : How Web 2.0 and Millennials are Revolutionizing Higher Education / Roger McHaney ; foreword by Sir John Daniel
Edition 1st ed
Published Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 247 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Internet in higher education.
Web 2.0.
Educational change.
Generation Y.
School improvement programs.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
School improvement programs
Educational change
Generation Y
Internet in higher education
Web 2.0
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010043057
ISBN 9781579226015
1579226019
9781579224592
1579224598
9781003447979
100344797X