A Study of Awareness of Web2.0 and its Different Applications among Faculty Members of Professional Courses

Web2.0 is an evolving suite of applications with tremendous potential to enrich connectivity, facilitate collaboration and encourage innovation. Darcy Di Nucci, first used the term ‘Web2.0’ in her post, ‘Fragmented Future’ in January 1999, but Tim O’Reilly popularized it at the Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Web 2.0 technology is the second generation of World Wide Web or the internet. This paper is focused to find awareness about Web2.0 and its applications among faculty members. The study also reveals that what are the applications that are more popular among faculty members and what is their adoption level in using these applications. Also, it reflects faculty members’ perception about Web2.0 tools, benefits and problems related while using it. The study is conducted on the faculty members of professional courses in the city of Patna.