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All teachers had an extensive involvement with Web 2.0 in their classrooms. The interviews were semi-structured and focused on personal case studies, students' views of Web 2.0, problems and prerequisites and educational opportunities of Web 2.0.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The teachers indicated that Web 2.0 learning activities promote the learner to the center of the learning process, open the schools\u2019 doors to society and help students learn how to cooperate and create digital content, while enabling them to reflect more on their thoughts, extend the time-space of the educational dialogue and promote trust between students and teachers. The participants had also to cope with challenges which concerned their colleagues\u2019 attitude and the educational environment, the parents\u2019 attitude, the amount of time and effort required, the unpredictable character of the activities, the limitations imposed by the curriculum, the overestimation of students\u2019 skills and the lack of training opportunities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>The findings can be transformed to a set of critical guidelines for policy makers and for educating the educators.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The set of findings are derived from teachers with a long-term, intensive, daily practice with Web 2.0 and offer an holistic systematic view of problems and opportunities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/itse-09-2015-0028","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,26]],"date-time":"2016-04-26T04:36:44Z","timestamp":1461645404000},"page":"2-18","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Benefits, barriers and prerequisites for Web 2.0 learning activities in the classroom"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"George","family":"Palaigeorgiou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Athina","family":"Grammatikopoulou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"key2020121621445349100_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"71","DOI":"10.1016\/j.iheduc.2008.05.002","article-title":"Investigating faculty decisions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies: theory and empirical tests","volume":"11","year":"2008","journal-title":"Internet and Higher Education"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2020121621445349100_ref002","first-page":"130","article-title":"Does collaboration occur when children are learning with the support of a wiki?","volume":"10","year":"2011","journal-title":"Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2020121621445349100_ref003","first-page":"41","article-title":"Teaching with Web 2.0 technologies: benefits, barriers and lessons learned","volume":"7","year":"2010","journal-title":"International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2020121621445349100_ref004","first-page":"195","article-title":"Exploring essential conditions: a commentary on Bull et al\u2019, (2008)","volume":"8","year":"2008","journal-title":"Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education"},{"key":"key2020121621445349100_ref005","unstructured":"Cachia, R., Ferrari, A., Ala-Mutka, K. and Punie, Y. 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