Launch event for report on Web 2.0 in higher education
A report that explores the impact that web 2.0 and the collaborative, social web are having on higher education in the UK will be launched on May 12, 2009.
The report, produced by the committee of inquiry into the changing learner experience, also contains a comparative international review covering the USA, Australia, South Africa and the Netherlands.
The report, titled ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’, will be launched at an event at The Barbican, London and will be hosted by committee chair, Sir David Meville.
He said, 'The report evaluates the challenges for universities and their staff in keeping pace with, and capitalising on, these trends and argues there are very strong drivers for change.'
Ewan McIntosh, 4iP Digital Commissioner for Scotland and Northern Ireland will also be speaking at the event.
The committee was formed to investigate the impact of students’ widespread use social networking technologies such as Facebook, blogs, twitter, podcasting, YouTube and the like on Higher Education. Although an independent committee, it is backed by all of the principal bodies in UK post-compulsory education, namely: the Higher Education Academy (The Academy), Universities UK (UUK), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), the Department for Employment and Learning for Northern Ireland (DELNI), Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK), Becta and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
When 6pm – 8pm, 12 May 2009Where The Garden Room, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
a lang on 12 Mar 09I like danah boyd's work on social media - her writing is very easy to read and always resists & deconstructs the simplifications that the mainstream media come up with in relation to technology and society. This talk is not as research-y as her other papers, but I like it because to a tech-novice such as myself it explains some of the principles behind social networking in easily comprehensible ways. The five properties of social media and three dynamics towards the end of the paper have been helpful for me in thinking about how to understand, and manage, the online mentoring for our social networking project.
