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Just past the horizon is Web 3.0. Described as the Semantic Web, it is a place where machines can better read, understand and process web pages; a place in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.. A Semantic Web agent could be programmed to do almost anything from automatically booking vacations to researching term papers. Developers of the Semantic Web want to build a systems that can give a reasonable and complete response to a simple question like:

“I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.”

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ust past the horizon is Web 3.0. Described as the Semantic Web, it is a place where machines can better read, understand and process web pages; a place in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.. A Semantic Web agent could be programmed to do almost anything from automatically booking vacations to researching term papers. Developers of the Semantic Web want to build a systems that can give a reasonable and complete response to a simple question like:

“I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.”

Under today’s system, such a query can lead to hours of sifting through lists of flights, hotel, and car rentals, and the options are often at odds with one another. Under Web 3.0, the same search would ideally call up a complete vacation package that was planned as meticulously as if it had been assembled by a human travel agent.

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The arrival of Web 2.0 has seen an unprecedented increase in people’s willingness to give up personal privacy as well as have it taken. This may only continue with Web 3.0 since the amount of personal information being broadcast over the internet from appliances and computers collecting data about their users to learn their every mood, behavior, desire and need will increase.

In the face of the possibility of security being exploited, how can one be assured that data security is maintained? How can individuals be assured data sources will be reliable and the facts they transmit can be trusted? How can one be sure that new security risks won’t be a boon to criminals and hackers?

Likewise, there is the danger of semantic attacks: the use of incorrect information to damage the credibility of target resources or to cause direct or indirect harm. This is an attack that target the way we, as humans, assign meaning to content. In the near future, semantic attacks may be more serious than physical or even syntactic attacks.” The possibility of losing one’s identity to machines is one of the major dangers of web 3.0.

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whereas education 3.0 is characterized by loose affiliations between all institutions, the breaking down of regional and institutional boundaries, flexible social learning that happens outside of the discipline, driven by personal distributed learning environments, and free/open educational resources.

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In his article “The genesis and emergence of Education 3.01 in higher education: the potential for Africa,” Derek Keats aptly identifies Education 3.0 as characterized by rich, cross-institutional, cross-cultural educational opportunities within which the learners themselves play a key role as creators of knowledge artifacts that are shared, and where social networking and social benefit outside the immediate scope of activity play a strong role.

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