Education 3.0

The term "Education 3.0" was very unfamiliar to me until a few days ago. Authors Derek Keats and J. Phillip Schmidt give us a full explanation of Education 3.0 in the article, The Genesis and Emergence of Education 3.0 in Higher Education and its Potential for Africa. The article begins with a helpful comparison chart between Ed 1.0, Ed 2.0, and Ed 3.0 (image attached). The chart shows how education has changed throughout the years. The difference of education across three generation of education is astronomical. The education our parents got is far different from the education that we received. Web 3.0 encourages collaboration, student-centered creations, flexible activities for students, and a sense of ownership in ones own education. The article states; "Education 3.0 is characterized by rich, cross-institutional, cross-cultural educational opportunities within which the learners themselves play a key role as creators of knowledge artifacts that are shared, and where social networking and social benefits outside the immediate scope of activity play a strong role" (Keats and Schmidt 2007). With the help of technology, achieving these aspects are more attainable than ever before.
When talking about Education 3.0's potential in Africa, it provides an alternative environment to achieve higher education in African countries. While African countries generally do not have the same resources as other countries, the same skills are there to still achieve Ed 3.0. They still have the desire to learn, the interest in collaboration, and the drive in students to be creative.