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Engineering Education in the Age of Web 2.0—Explorations Through iMechanica.org Teng Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering Web 2.0 refers to a collection of second generation Web services, such as blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, and Really Simple Syndicates (RSS) feeds. While the first generation Web (Web 1.0) is about linking information available online, Web 2.0 emphasizes online collaboration and sharing among people. These new Web services bring up new opportunities to innovate how we conduct research and education. We report the preliminary explorations of engineering education exploiting Web 2.0 services, through iMechanica (http://imechnica.org).

kids in my class have made a dramatic move to Google docs

these students are more often sharing them with me so that I can help them with revisions and specific paragraphs.

While it’s obvious that companies should source talent from outside their own walls, most are too conceited to bother - how could their customers know more about their product than they do?

What will happen when the revolution in media production - in the form of blogs, citizen journalism sites like OhMyNews, peer-produced knowledge factories like Wikipedia and collaborative news filters like Digg - makes its way into product design?

What the engineering students in Berger's classes are doing goes well beyond that – so far beyond, in fact, that the National Science Foundation awarded Berger, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, a three-year, $500,000 grant to assess the effectiveness of what he's calling "Higher Ed 2.0."

video of the class lectures (though the camera is turned off for the last 20 minutes, lest slackers be tempted to skip class altogether).

"solution videos," in which he demonstrates how to solve the fiendishly difficult mathematical and geometric problems