Teaching innovation is, in effect, research. We have expectations about what will happen when we do things differently (or even, when we do them the same!) these expectations are, in effect, the hypotheses we are testing by conducting the action of teaching. Better teaching involves a constant process of action research and, like research, we may not get the answers we expect.
The LINK teaching fellowship project involved the desk analysis of many Web 2.0 tools leading to the selection of the 50 presented here. It also involved real-world testing of some of the applications, and also the more important concepts of the knowledge networking learning paradigm within the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University.
This section presents examples of what we have done and are doing, emphasising the way that the use of Web 2.0 applications for knowledge networking was linked closely to the assessment structures of the units. I also present some key findings which summarise the overall experience so far.
