Abstract
The purpose of this study is to discuss the adoption of web 2.0 by the Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) in India. This is the first kind of study which revealed use and awareness of Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogs, LinkedIn, YouTube, RSS feed, Flickr, and Wiki within the IHE in India. This paper attempts to measure the dissemination of web 2.0 tools in various IHE that is, IITs, IIMs and AIIMS. The websites of institutions were surveyed individually and the web 2.0 tool available on their websites was studied. A total 36 institutions of higher education of the country are being analysed and they use 62 web 2.0 tools. The study found that 44.44% of the total population under study consists of IITs, 36.11% of IIMs, and 19.44% of AIIMS. The study only considers those Web 2.0 tools which are linked on websites of institutions of higher education in India.
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