China: Education 2.0 Tour--Applications and Effects of Virtual Tour to International Communication in Educational Technology

In the report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century Learning, the treasure within (1996), learning to live together was coined as one of the four pillars of learning in the future. We stake our hopes for world peace and development on education, and information technology is highly expected to contribute to international communication in the field of education. The emergence of Web 2.0 especially brought us many excitements and innovative ideas. Defined as a platform (O'Reilly, 2005), Web 2.0 allows users control their own data, whether by creating, organizing, or sharing. The world has become exceptionally flat as we could never imagine (Friedman, 2005). Does this mean that we could bring educators in different corners of the world onto a virtual space and have them start dialogues and work together? We will answer this question, by our own actions and findings.