What is Network Learning Environment

This chapter reports on online student task completion activities as they engage in a learning environment that uses multiple Web 2.0 tools in two sections of a graduate level Educational Technology course at an American institution of higher education. Using a web-based Likert-type questionnaire to collect data from twenty-two participants, this chapter sought to investigate the relationship between working with multiple Web 2.0 tools and student task completion activities (following discussion threads, team work, and meeting assignment deadlines) in a network learning environment (NLE), what Web 2.0 tools students prefer the most in online learning environments, whether there is any gender difference in terms of task completion, and which activities presented more challenge to participants. The survey results indicate that no significant correlation exist between the variables. Finally, recommendations for future research are suggested.