Web 2.0 in Higher Education

Web 2.0 in Higher Education Mark van Harmelen

What’s it all about?
Sharing Content
create
save
find
use
re-use
mix
mash-up
repurpose
share
text, graphics, sound, video, slideshows, ….

What’s it all about?
Social software
helping people
interact
form groups
manage processes
pursue common interests and endeavours
learn
research

Wikis, blogs
help people communicate
source: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk

RSS, Atom
notification of changes

Social bookmarking
collecting knowledge together
del.icio.us home page

Web start pages
organise your / your group’s web use

Picture sharing
educational information, visual projects

Video sharing
educational content – avoiding rescheduling lectures

Podcasting, Vidcasting
audio, video with RSS for notification
subscribe

Mashups
superimpose data
library availability user ratinng and ISBN, rating and reviews from Amazon

Social networks
interact with learners, teachers and researchers
via social networks

Common threads
tags
comments
ratings
RSS and notification
favorites
friends
network as platform for collaboration
user-generated content
mutually-added value
building community

you need to try it to understand it

Education Libraries Services

Education and Web 2.0

… applied scaffolding page structure content suggestions multi-way suggestion / feedback

… learning together

… communication / participation with Google Groups 168 messages 68 topics guess 75% me but significant effect feedback from one class member: felt involved in a course for the first time

Library 2.0 / Repository 2.0
go where the user is

Library 2.0 / Repository 2.0
enable the growth of
user generated content
ratings
recommendations
reviews
user tagging and tag exploitation
make it possible to meet
collaborate with
and help each other
thereby building communities

Some service issues
Here or there?
What here?
Control and legal liability vs experimentation
Who as users and IPR
Services 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

thanks
Mark van Harmelen
Independent consultant
and
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
[email_address]

Credits and licence
Credits
Web/neurone Flynn-Burhoe
Thumbs up by Sean Dreilinger
Community line drawing by the New School Masters in Media Studies Program and The Opportunity Agenda
Screendumps by Mark van Harmelen
License for this presentation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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