beyondwebct

"folksonomy" (in contrast to taxonomy), a style of collaborative categorization of sites using freely chosen keywords, often referred to as tags. Tagging allows for the kind of multiple, overlapping associations that the brain itself uses, rather than rigid categories. In the canonical example, a Flickr photo of a puppy might be tagged both "puppy" and "cute"--allowing for retrieval along natural axes generated user activity.

peer-production

RSS allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that page changes.

reconciling new forms of scholarly activity with old standards continues to be difficult, creating tension and raising questions as to where faculty energy is best directed.

Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university

There is a greater need than ever for effective tools and filters for finding, interpreting, organizing, and retrieving the data that is important to us.

The content of electronic books and the social activities they enable, rather than the device used to access them, are the keys to their popularity;

Perhaps more important for education, Internetcapable mobile devices will outnumber computers within the next year.

This shift in the means of connecting to the Internet is being enabled by the convergence of three trends: the growing number of Internet-capable mobile devices, increasingly flexible web content, and continued development of the networks that support connectivity.