THE IMPACT OF THE WEB CULTURE ON EDUCATION

Maria Victoria G. Pineda
Information Technology
Department De La Salle University-Manila
Philippines

With the progress of the web, many new solutions are also developed to allow every individual to be able to participate. The active ones see the need to create solutions that are free and accessible. Web 2.0 technologies and its contemporaries like Google and YouTube permit open collaboration and sharing, providing free and accessible solutions, the campaign of copying or retrieving, absorbing or reusing solution materials. This has now become part of the web culture. The web culture gives leverage to young people and students of enjoying more freedom, having so much resources and having a comfort zone. This leads to a more preferred reality compared to the imperfect physical reality. What are the implications of web culture now to education?

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