This will be a chapter in Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching by IGI Global.  My chapter examines how the World Wide Web could possibly change over the next ten years into a concept commonly referred to as “Web 3.0,” and how these changes might affect education. It examines how Web 3.0 concepts such as cloud computing, the semantic web, and the three-dimensional web are currently being explored and realized. A possible future online learning scenario is also described and analyzed to help visualize these possibilities for education. The author hopes that understanding how the Internet may change distance education in the next several years will help educators be better prepared for the future of online learning.

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