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Technological Challenges
Posed By Web 2.0
Brian Kelly,
UKOLN,
University of Bath
Bath
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Introduction
About The Speaker
Brian Kelly:
• UK Web Focus – an advisory post which provides
advices on making effective use of the on Web (with
focus on standards, emerging Web technologies)
• Involved in Web work since January 1993
• Focus on Web technologies and not e-learning!
About UKOLN:
• National centre of expertise in digital information
management
• Based at the University of Bath
• Funded by MLA and JISC to support the cultural
heritage and higher/further education sectors
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Introduction
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About This Introduction
Your context:
• You’ve explored interesting e-learning issues in
your project, including pedagogical & technical
aspects
• We’ll hear from several projects
Are you still relevant? Has Web 2.0:
• Changed the rules
• Changed users’ behaviours and expectations?
• Redefined who the various service providers are?
And do we (as academic, developers, managers…):
• Need to fund development work differently?
• Need to deploy services differently?
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Scenario Planning
Web 2.0 wins
Steady as
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Like today,
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Google/Yahoo …
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Social networks
Web 2.0
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Web 2.0 fails
Student backlash
Revival of the VLE
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Assertions
1 Web 2.0 As Platform
Web 2.0 is the platform for doing things
• Technical infrastructure now available
(RSS, REST, URIs,…)
• It’s in place now
• It was designed (since 1990) to be global,
scalable, … (Web 2.0 was Sir Tim’s original
vision)
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2 Global Social Networks
Web 2.0 made us aware of benefits of social
networks (why did we miss it?):
• Things that get better as numbers grow
(Google link analysis algorithm)
• Our social nature
• Our diversity of social networks: school,
work, play, professional, …
• Experiences from Facebook (connections
from school)
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3 “Embrace Constraints”
Traditional public sector IT development:
• Standards defined (technical, accessibility, legal,
…)
• Technical architecture defined (fully interoperable
with everything and use the latest TLA standards)
• Well-funded programme call
• Two/three year funded projects
• Formal advisory groups, reporting structures, …
Results in:
• Driving out innovation
• Flawed services arriving too late
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4 Cost Effectiveness
Challenge public sector norms:
• Must be universally accessible
• Must work on all platforms
• Must work on legacy systems
• Must be managed in-house
Tell me:
• Why?
• Does the best drive out the good?
• Don’t you encounter the ‘IT Services barrier’
(Skype is evil, doesn’t use the right standards,…)
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5 Live (slightly) Dangerously
Can’t use social networks:
• Data protection, privacy, …
• Need to protect students from embarrassing
themselves
• It’s not what IT should be used for
• It’s not what university is about
• You’ll catch viruses
• You’ll meet the wrong type of people
• The data isn’t preserved
• The data is preserved
Make IT blended; part of University life. It’s like student bars,
accommodation, parties, …
Students may want the data to fade away
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Assertions
6 Addressing Your Concerns
But what about:
• Risks of using 3rd party services
• Sustainability
• Quality assurance
• Assessment
• Changes to political, cultural & economic
framework
• …
“Events, dear boy, events!” That’s life, and we’ve been
it before.
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Summary
What if:
• The VLE is dying?
• Flickr & Facebook define students expectations
for social networks?
• The lightweight stuff wins over the masses; the
slow-moving worthy stuff doesn’t get used?
• Out-sourcing the infrastructure delivers benefits to
the institution (cost-savings) and users (richer
functionality (cf. TCD and Google Mail)
• Web 2.0 today is like student life in 1960s
• Everything I have said is completely wrong!
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Questions
Any questions?
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