leveraging web 2.0 within a university setting
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Leveraging Web 2.0 within a University Setting
Contact : Michael.Begg@ed.ac.uk
Michael BeggLearning Technology SectionCollege of Medicine and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of Edinburgh
Leveraging Web 2.0 within a University Setting
Jumping through round holes with square pegs
Scene Setting with mixed metaphors
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Local Evidence
• Teachers negotiating contracts with mobile device vendors to avoid having to deal with institutional systems
• Teachers regularly pointing students to external resources of their own making; sites, repositories, blogs…
• Students now able to aggregate learning environments of their own
• Developers using development and staging servers to host collaborative environments not supported by centralised resources
• Institutions remain keener to submerge costs into management process than either teaching or learning
The suggestion being…
• There is rich activity, there is innovation, there is excitement
– Ungoverned by central process
• Our CoPs are becoming increasingly partisan in nature
Is this happening?
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Getting under the skin…
Let us consider the issues within the environmental frameworks of political alignment and personal construction…
Under the skin
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Institutions…
• eLearning increasingly embedded, but open to individual interpretation
• Institutions now reliant upon technocracy for increased activity, increased numbers, increased distances
• Growth of “managerialist” “top down” “centralist” processes
• Often overbearing - and largely unsubstantiated - caution over committed implementation of user-centred technologies
Positions
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Positions
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Web 2.0
• Definition open to interpretation, few standards
• Powerful corporations steer the democratisation of content
• Implementation “hype-cycle”… but a lot of good work out there!
Leveraging Web 2.0 within a University Setting
Personal Constructs
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Political alignment : VLE (www.politicalcompass.org)
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Political alignment : VLE & Institution
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Political alignment : Institution & Blog
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Leveraging Web 2.0 within a University Setting
Political alignment : Institution & Wiki
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Leveraging Web 2.0 within a University Setting
Political alignment : Students and Facebook
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Leveraging Web 2.0 within a University Setting
Political alignment : eLearning
Alignment and Orientation - personal and political
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Leveraging within CMVM Edinburgh
• The quiet dissolving of the VLE
– Its actually becoming a VLE!
• Wikis formally assessed in teaching, offered as personal and collaborative repositories for students, deployed as research sandpits
• Blogs for every user
• Wiki / Labyrinth as dynamic knowledgebase with context enforcement
• Flexible Vocabularies
Local Leverage
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Process and flexibility
• Web 2.0 has brought a lot of people together - some of us are here!
• Few standards - but relative simplicity
– The joined up thinking can be retrospective
– The speed of building (the ease of “editorial inheritance”)
– Service Layers
• The absorption of “e” into teaching, learning and research
– Business models emerging in distance learning
• Political incompatibilities - once exposed - offer a framework for
– Compromise? Reconciliation? Reflection and improvement?
• Educational Informatics
– Professional, informed, pedagogically grounded
• Creative Commons
Leverage
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A common April
• New democratic tools being offered by multinational corporations
• To institutions who love the idea but cannot get under the skin
• While partisans work beneath the radar to provide “good stuff”
• To a user-base more interested in getting their certificate of attendance than learning anything
• And a teacher base unprepared to engage with students within the students own adopted learning envronments
Possible Worlds
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An uncommon April
• Federated systems, negotiated, licensed, mapped, proximal
• New relationships between local and institutional level provision
• A negotiated environment for mutual feedback and evaluation in learning environments
• An environment of process, as well as content
Possible Worlds
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Thank You!
Contact : Michael.Begg@ed.ac.uk
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