FROM WEBX.0 TO UNIVERSITYX.0: RE-IMAGINING EDUCATION

Thirty years ago: (a) John Naisbitt has anticipated that we will be living, working and learning surrounded in the information society; (b) Steven Jobs has anticipated how computers and networking will be the most important technologies used by people and organizations in the next future. Additional details from these fantastic predictions will be presented later, in the paper.
Recent communication (Strasbourg, 20.11.2012, COM(2012) 669 final) to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, "Rethinking Education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes" underlines that "European education and training systems continue to fall short in providing the right skills for employability, and are not working adequately with business or employers to bring the learning experience closer to the reality of the working environment. These skills mismatches are a growing concern for European industry's competitiveness". There is a special statement on the potential of ICT and Open Educational Resources for education.
Just in this context we will ask ourselves how modern technologies as WEB1.0, WEB2.0, WEB3.0 have influenced the universities until now and how they will influence the universities in the next future.
In this paper we will summarize some correlations between WEB X.0 and University X.0. State of art WEB technologies, particularly suitable for education, will be presented; some of them are already in use within the Department for DL of the University of Bucharest.
Finally, the authors will try to figure some WEB 2.0 technologies that could be used for the University 2.0 platform.