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稻 江 學 報 第 五 卷 第 一 期
Web 2.0 technology. The most common Web 2.0 tools relate to social-networking, such as Blogs, Facebook, Wiki,
and Second Life. The main concept behind social-networking is allowing people to connect, easily and deeply, with
others and also to create positive learning from the interaction. The concepts of interaction and participation are
frequent topics when people discuss new social networking technologies (Diehl, 2007). Web 2.0 tools have the
potential to provide significant amounts of conversation for course interactions among learners, and among
instructors and learners.
Literature review
Second Life
Second Life (SL), compatible with Windows, MAC OS X, and Linux operating systems, successfully attracts
many users. Second Life is a 3-D version of the Web and enables users’ teaching and social activities: Instructors can
create and design a virtual class for a course. The Second Life program provides a novel atmosphere for playing an
on-line game or access wide-open spaces to extend creativity. Many universities and colleges have virtual space,
called “land” to establish campuses in SL, where classes meet and students interact in real time. For instance, Lagorio
(2007) provided an interface (Figure 1.) to show that participants can hold chat discussions and create multimedia
presentations from virtual building blocks.
Figure 1. A Harvard Law School lecture in Second Life (Lagorio, 2007).
In preparing for instructors to develop a learning program for older adults in Second Life, the important thing
for instructors is to design a blueprint for older learners before applying the technology to the course. In the virtual
environment, orientation is necessary for elder students to understand how to use the program and ensure they can
enjoy the learning process.
Also, designers can ask some veterans of the course to volunteer for this assistant’s job, so elder learners not
only gain new knowledge during the course, but also develop self-confidence when they help other learners to solve
problems. The help station is an important factor for a fruitful course because it facilitates the learning process for
elder learners to navigate the virtual space.
Wiki
Another effective technology related to Web 2.0 is Wiki which is a group of web pages that allows users to
access the web-pages and to modify contents. An advantage of Wiki over other e-learning technologies, such as
Angel or Blackboard, is that users can collaboratively edit contents. Wiki benefits older adults because it offers an
uncomplicated interface for elder learners, and it is particularly effective for contributing and exchanging information
through teamwork. Schaffert (2006) provided a graphic which allows experiencing a sample of an interface page in
Wiki (Figure 2.).
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