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Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
This seminar will provide a systematic means to evaluate Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, and friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) profiles to support their judicious adoption in higher education. It will help decision makers develop strategies for various degrees of integration. Distilling Oxford University's experiences will enable participants to quickly identify key issues and clarify ideas about an appropriate educational role for such technologies and how they might be suitably incorporated in institutional systems.
In particular, the seminar will share considerable experience from numerous externally funded projects in software development as well as how to make the most of open source projects to address needs-based development.
The analysis will be illustrated through four areas: blogs (for supporting personal reflections and enhancing learning experiences), wikis (for collaborative knowledge building), newsfeeds (for improving communications from small workgroups to institution-wide services), and learning management systems (personalization to support student self-publication, social networking, and profiling through FOAF).
