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Enthusiastic educational commentators are casting the internet in a new light through the emergence of so-called ‘Web 2.0’ echnologies, which place learners at the centre of online activities and facilitate supposedly new forms of creation, collaboration, and consumption. Proponents anticipate a host of new pedagogical challenges posed by a ‘Facebook generation’ of ‘wiki kids,’ whilst schools and colleges are delivering courses in ‘Second Life’ rather than real-life environments. An impassioned minority of educationalists has even heralded a ‘Web 2.0 transformation of learning’ with “potentially groundbreaking implications for the field of education” (Thomas 2008). Yet such enthusiasm has been tempered by a more sceptical reaction throughout other sectors of the educational and technology communities. Mindful of these debates, this presentation will overview briefly the emerging research literature in the area of Web 2.0 enhanced learning (specifically the Facebook and Second Life applications) and focus on the following issues