IMPACT OF WEB 3.0 ON THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING
IMPACT OF WEB 3.0 ON THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: In a world dominated by abrupt changes and information overload, the current Internet version, though successful and welding people via social networking, is still tributary to its early and obsolete system design. The new environments demand a change in the way the Internet functions and the information is conveyed and stored so that the users will have a more complete experience of web- browsing. Currently, the Web provides limited access to data with its chaotic nature that does not offer the user the possibility to obtain the needed information based on only one search on a single browser. That is why, the Web needs to change, become more decentralized, and transform into a huge database that incorporates artificial intelligence able to "understand" and retrieve the information needed by the user. As nowadays data are hidden in different databases, relevant information is hardly discovered by search engines, the results being thus unsatisfactory. The miscellaneous structure of the Web and the information overload have transformed the Web into a swamp where data are duplicated and where relevant information sometimes sinks to the bottom becoming invisible even to multiple searches with different engines. Actually, end-users are more likely to dig out what they are looking for, if they already have prior knowledge of what they are going to find using specific key words. However, by obtaining relevant information from different fields, people are able to learn more about the fast changing world around them and make sound decisions regarding their career prospects. Therefore, the Web has to transform in order to feed the thirst for knowledge that characterizes modern society and provide users with better learning experiences to suit their needs in both academic and nontraditional settings.

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