Web 2.0 tools in medical and nursing school curricula

Social Media and Nurse Education: An Integrative Review of the Literature

“…The use and potential of social media considering that Web 2.0 instruments have significantly changed the way we use the Internet, Skiba [22][23][24] highlights the need for trainers to make efforts to move away from traditional communication models and implement effective methods for using Web. 2.0 in nursing education.…”

“…The use of social media as a training tool in nursing education is recommended to support clinical learning, communication, connection, exchange and partnerships [22][23][24][26][27][28][31][32][33]. Some authors have already evaluated and demonstrated this [25,29,30].…”

How Digital Platforms Can Trigger Cultural Value Co-Creation?—A Proposed Model

“…To better understand the disruptive nature of the above-mentioned revolution it worth to divide it into different and subsequent macro-phases: 1) During the first era of digitalization the Internet or what we now call the Web 1.0 or "read-only-web" [29] acted as passive, static and unidirectional user-oriented mediator; in other words, as push-mediator [30] 2) The era of the so-called Web 2.0, a term used for the first time in 2004 by Dale Dougherty the vice-president of O'Reilly, was characterized by a shared wisdom, people-centric, participative and "read-write" web [31]. These characteristics opened up to users' contribution in content generation and to their interaction with others [29].…”

“…These characteristics opened up to users' contribution in content generation and to their interaction with others [29]. This led to the spreading of the so-called User Generated Contents (UGCs), which added to the renewed informative potential and to faster information flows made the Internet a really participative arena, populated by a plethora of social platforms (e.g.…”

The Use of Educational Web Tools: An Innovative Technique in Teacher Education Courses

“…Users themselves (instead of the web page author) are able to edit, comment, create, and share content with other users. This collaborative feature of Web 2.0 comes along at a propitious time because many sources are increasingly considering collaboration to be an important factor in the success of educational, social, and technological endeavors, especially those pertaining to the web [4].…”