About a year ago during a WISE administrative meeting, I jokingly commented that web 2.0 had become so important to online learning, I was waiting for someone to invent web 3.0. Now it officially exists.

Digital Inspiration explains web 3.0 concepts “in plain English” (not to be confused with Common Craft’s Plain English video series) with a series of slide presentations. In simple terms, web 3.0 refers to personalized web content, from mobile web apps to audience-specific advertisements (based on an individual’s search/browsing history).

The following slide helps distinguish between web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0:

slide image from Digital Inspiration

The slide presentations (six on one page) are visual-only and explain the concept of web 3.0 in greater detail.

What does this mean for online education? If web 2.0 is about collaboration, web 3.0 is about personalization. I’m guessing that more online courses will be flexible in terms of scheduling, and possibly even in terms of content. The on-demand Introduction to Online Pedagogy workshop may be a reasonable example, since it’s designed for learning at any time of day or year, and specific information can be accessed on content pages rather than reading through the entire website just to find the page on rubrics, for example. (I’m getting an updated version of this workshop ready to announce later this week.)

University-based semester courses are less likely to see this type of change very quickly, but shorter workshops, webinars, and other continuing education programs could see more influence from web 3.0 advocates in the near future.

Web 3.0 Concepts in Plain English

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