INTERNATIONAL REVIEW Experience of integrating web 2.0 technologies Katerina Zdravkova • Mirjana Ivanovic ´ • Zoran Putnik Published online: 24 November 2011 Ó Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2011 Abstract Web users in the 21st century are no longer only passive consumers. On a contrary, they are active contributors willing to obtain, share and evolve information. In this paper we report our experience regarding the implementation of Web 2.0 concept in several Computer Ethics related courses jointly conducted at two Universities. These courses have been delivered to undergraduate and graduate students. The paper addresses main deficiencies of traditional E-learning noticed in earlier years and offers an alternative approach based on social media and collaborative creation of joint contents. Each Web 2.0 feature directly implemented in our courses is presented in details. Particular attention is paid to workload, student feedback and to observed benefits and disadvantages. Keywords Social networks Á Collaborative content creation Á E-learning Á Publishing technologies Introduction Recent report (Eurostat Report 2010) indicates that ‘‘the share of households with broadband Internet access has doubled since 2006’’ to reach 65% ‘‘regular Internet users’’ in 2010, considering regular those who use the Internet at home at least once per week. Eurostat estimated that even 90% of high educated according to ISCED (2011), indicating first or second stage of tertiary education, as well as young people from 16 to 24 years are such users. K. Zdravkova Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Informatics, Skopje, FYRO Macedonia, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia e-mail: keti@ii.edu.mk M. Ivanovic ´ Á Z. Putnik (&) Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Republic Serbia e-mail: putnik@dmi.uns.ac.rs M. Ivanovic ´ e-mail: mira@dmi.uns.ac.rs 123 Education Tech Research Dev (2012) 60:361–381 DOI 10.1007/s11423-011-9228-z