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minorities intensively. Now it is transferred into from bottom to top and led by the
collective wisdom and strength of the majority of the clients. Giving dominance to
individuals is the intrinsic source of Web 2.0. In this way, it fully develops the
individuals' enthusiasm. Then the impact and wisdom contributed by the majorities of
individual, and the whole group's impact have taken the place of the impact brought by
the minority. And it exploits the potentialities of individual creation and contribution,
making the creativity be moved into a new level. The clients in the time of Web 2.0
don't have to have the circular motion around the portal site. They are the active
information distributors instead of the passive information receivers. They can fully
experience it and communicate and interact with each other.
From the information provided above, we can see that Web 2.0 is the process of
transferring from one-way transmission to interactive one. The traditional teaching
revolves round the teacher, classroom and the textbooks. Students are received the
teachers' role as “propagate cardinal principles, impart professional knowledge, and
resolve doubts” passively. There are many coincidences and similarities between the
education reform of new type which takes the new curriculum reform as the clue and
Web 2.0.From the idea of Web 2.0the following table now presents the comparison
between the new education and the traditional one :

Table 1. The comparison of the web2.0 education and the traditional education

Features The Traditional Education Form The Web 2.0 Education Form

The Main Role of
Teachers

the source of knowledge the source of knowledge and the administrator

The Tool and
Content

the traditional material that was
protected by copyright

The protected and free material is usually trans-
system.

traditional: paper, assigned homework,
test and group discussion in class

It turns to be more open and pay more attention on
the cooperation in the learning process.

Learning
Behavior

The Academic
Institute

The exchange among the
interdisciplinary was limited within
campus; it was only taught, estimated
and assigned a task by a certain subject

Pay more attention to the cooperation and
coordination among the universities ( international
ones included)

How one studies mainly received passively manifest the awareness of

take part in actively

being master

make use of electronic learning
administering system; just get involved
in one institute

It involves the other universities' E-learning
cooperation most part of which limited in the
learning administering system, but can be collected
with other system

The technical
means

From the table provided above, it is clear that the Web 2.0 education idea breaks the
time and area limitation in teaching and learning, emphasizing on students to be the
main body. The students will acquire the knowledge and build up their ability in
relaxed harmonious circumstance. It also provides different plans for the student to
make them interact and share with others, to experience the happiness of learning, to
obtain something they are interested in by themselves, to increase the interaction and
fully develop their subjective initiative. In that sense, the learners at the same time are
the sharers.