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Developing a Web 2.0-based system with user-authored content for community use and teacher education

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We report on an investigation into the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of an informational and instructional Website in order to generate guidelines for instructional designers of read/write Web environments. We describe the process of design and development research, the problem addressed, the theory-based solution, and the evaluation and testing of that solution. Based on our experience, we then identify sixteen guidelines for future designers and developers of read/write Web-based learning environments. The study demonstrates how read/write Web technologies can be used to address general problems that have intrinsic societal importance; examines implementation of a read/write technology in a real-life context, thereby testing distributed cognitions learning theory; informs the design of similar environments; and provides grounded theory for the design and development of read/write Web learning environments.

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This work was funded by the Center on Disability and Development at Texas A&M University and the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services.

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    Lauren Cifuentes, Sanser Bulu & Laura M. Stough

  2. Center on Disability and Development, EPSY, CEHD, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77840, USA

    Amy Sharp & Mike Benz

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Cifuentes, L., Sharp, A., Bulu, S. et al. Developing a Web 2.0-based system with user-authored content for community use and teacher education. Education Tech Research Dev 58, 377–398 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-009-9141-x

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