Paradigmin Education: from traditional to 3.0 environment JUHAIDA ABDUL AZIZ 1 , PARILAH M. SHAH 2 , ROSSENI DIN, RASHIDAH RAHAMAT, HELMI NORMAN, JAI SHREE A/P BIPINCHANDRA Faculty of Education Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi, Selangor MALAYSIA jusyamel@yahoo.com 1 ; rosseni@ukm.my 2 Abstract: - The use of Web 3.0 technologies in education has significant effect and is gaining momentum among the educational fields especially in teaching and learning collaboratively. A paradigm shift from traditional learning style to technology innovations has opened up more opportunities for educators to practise accordingly. Collaborative Filtering for education in 3.0 environment is an approach in which teachers or learners who share the same interest could start collaboration easily as they have the same background. Through collaborative filtering, the system highly recommends other teachers or learners who have performed the same tasks in a large number of times to become good collaborators. For instance, this collaborative filtering is a significant tool when a learner searches for peer help to solve a problem. The system identifies the process by matching the learner’s actions and the other learners. Thus, this opens up more opportunities for educators to practise diverse teaching styles that integrate wide dimension of technologies elements to suit the learners’ needs. In this paper, results from the study provide useful information to portray the perception and readiness of the teachers towards Collaborative Filtering (CF) for education in 3.0 environment. The data collected was analysed using Winsteps 3.71.0.1 which applied Rasch Model based on Item Response Theory (IRT) Models. Consequently, the findings enable teachers to better understand Web 3.0 technologies and use the utility to be integrated in Malaysian education for learners’ benefit as well. Key-Words: -Collaborative filtering, Web technologies, teaching and learning in 3.0 1 Introduction With the massive growth in the use of websites on social activities, it is a novel task to consider integrating the activities for the benefit of teaching and learning. Web services, namely wikis, blogs, discussion boards and social networking websites illustrate the current trend of diverse teaching style that uses the integration of collaborative exploration and information of academic environments. For that matter, it is necessary for the teachers to understand and adapt their teaching styles to fulfil the demand of the net-generations [10, 15]. The net- generations or to be called “Digital Natives” are reported to grow up surrounded by new digital technologies which are integral parts of their lives. According to Prensky [27], they have spent their entire lives using and living with digital era including computer games, E-mail, the Internet, texting, instance messages, video games, computer or digital music players. 2 Statement of Problem Today’s learners are no longer like those in our old educational system when it was first designed and taught. They have changed radically. In order to have access to the matter, Digital Natives methodologies need to be materialised for teaching and learning environment [27]. Hence, as a step towards managing the Web 3.0 technologies in classroom education, we focus our study towards teachers’ perceptions and readiness on the matter. Teachers’ perceptions could portray the early readiness towards teaching in a 3.0 learning environment. To measure that, it is recommended for researchers to construct items which aim to investigate a person’s behaviour and it is equally important to be aware of the crucial task of constructing high-quality items [20]. Thus, valid measurements that will reveal the findings are expected to be materialized. To address the task, Rasch measurement analysis provides general guidelines in assisting a researcher to measure the reliability and validity of the items developed. In relation, it is proposed that an instrument with high item reliability index indicates the replicability of the item placements along the pathway if ever the items were to be given to other respondent with comparable levels of ability be developed[6]. Applications of Information Systems in Engineering and Bioscience ISBN: 978-960-474-381-0 138