Web 2.0in

Higher Education

Mark van Harmelen

What’s it all about?

Sharing Contentcreate

savefinduse

re-usemix

mash-uprepurpose

sharetext, graphics, sound, video,

slideshows, ….

What’s it all about? Social software

helping people interact

form groups manage processes

pursue common interests and endeavours

learnresearch

Wikis, blogshelp people communicate

source: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk

RSS, Atomnotification of changes

Social bookmarkingcollecting knowledge together

del.icio.us home page

Web start pagesorganise your / your group’s web use

Picture sharingeducational information, visual projects

Video sharingeducational content – avoiding rescheduling lectures

Podcasting, Vidcastingaudio, video with RSS for notification

Mashupssuperimpose data

Social networksinteract with learners, teachers and researchers

via social networks

Common threadstags

commentsratings

RSS and notificationfavorites

friends

network as platformfor collaboration

user-generated contentmutually-added value

building community

you need totry it

to understandit

EducationLibrariesServices

Education and Web 2.0

…applied scaffolding

pagestructurecontent suggestionsmulti-waysuggestion /feedback

… learning together

…communication / participation withGoogle Groups

168 messages68 topicsguess 75% mebut significant effectfeedback from one class member: felt involved in a course for the first time

Library 2.0 / Repository 2.0go where the user is

Library 2.0 / Repository 2.0enable the growth of user generated content ratings recommendations reviews user tagging and tag exploitation

make it possible to meetcollaborate with and help each otherthereby building communities

Some service issues

Here or there?What here?Control and legal liability vs experimentationWho as users and IPRServices staff as advisors in a new field What’s best? What should our strategy be? How should we learn about this?

Examples

• Edinburgh – Strategy first• Brighton – Elgg, anyone uses, 4.5% use• Leeds – Elgg, staff trained first,

consequent use for teaching• Warwick – Own blog software, longest

running scheme, highest use

thanksMark van HarmelenIndependent consultant and School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Manchestermark@cs.man.ac.uk

Credits and licenceCredits

Web/neurone Flynn-BurhoeThumbs up by Sean DreilingerCommunity line drawing by

the New School Masters in Media Studies Program and The Opportunity AgendaScreendumps by Mark van Harmelen

License for this presentation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/