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Paul Anderson: Web 2.0 & The University

This document discusses Web 2.0 and its implications for universities. It begins by explaining the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, noting that Web 2.0 focuses on participation and blurring the lines between content producers and consumers. It then provides examples of classic Web 2.0 applications like wikis and blogs that allow for easy information sharing. The document also discusses how processing user-contributed data enables new services and models, like recommendations and crowdsourcing. Finally, it discusses challenges universities face in supporting Web 2.0 technologies and exploiting them for teaching, research, and administration.

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Paul Anderson: Web 2.0 & The University

This document discusses Web 2.0 and its implications for universities. It begins by explaining the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, noting that Web 2.0 focuses on participation and blurring the lines between content producers and consumers. It then provides examples of classic Web 2.0 applications like wikis and blogs that allow for easy information sharing. The document also discusses how processing user-contributed data enables new services and models, like recommendations and crowdsourcing. Finally, it discusses challenges universities face in supporting Web 2.0 technologies and exploiting them for teaching, research, and administration.

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Overview

• Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 - What’s the difference?


• “Classic” Web 2.0 Applications -
- Sharing Information,Weblogs & Wikis
• Beyond Blogs & Wikis -
- Exploiting contributed data, Mashups,Web 3.0
• Web 2.0 in the University
- Supporting Web 2.0 in the University
- Exploiting Web 2.0 Technology
Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
• Web 1.0 is about “publishing & broadcasting”.
- A“producers”
clear division between “consumers” and

- Producers require a web server and a good


understanding of the technology (HTML).
• Web 2.0 is about “participation”.
- The role of “producers” and “consumers” is
blurred. Contributing is easy.
- Individual applications change quickly - the
sharing (and processing) of contributed
information is the constant factor ...
Web 2.0 is not about the
Technology
“All right, the buzzwords do get old fast. And you will get different
answers from different people about what "Web 2.0" is. My answer is,
Web 2.0 isn't about the technology, and people who think it is are way
off.

Web 2.0 is about psychology, the way people use the now omnipresent
network for communication on multiple levels.The internet started with
researchers sending each other electronic mail. Now it's everyone talking
at once, sharing all of their knowledge, opinions, and experiences with
the whomever will listen.”
Anon
“Classic” Web 2.0

• Classic Web 2.0 applications allow people to


collaborate and share information easily ...
• Wikis - are shared Web pages which can be
edited collaboratively (and easily) by many people.
• Blogs - are similar to personal electronic diaries
which can be viewed, and commented on by
others.
• Other applications share other information:
- Flikr (photographs), Google (calendars),Youtube
(videos), Amazon (music reviews), ...
Beyond Blogs & Wikis
• Processing and exploiting the data
contributed by large numbers of users
enables new services and models ...
- Amazon book recommendations based on the
purchases of people with similar interests.
- Sorting of news stories by popularity (Digg).
- Dating services - or matching researchers to
research projects! (Innocentive).
• Enlisting users to create content, solve
problems, or even do corporate R&D is known
as “Crowdsourcing” (see Wikipedia).
Beyond Blogs & Wikis
• Combining data from multiple services
(Mashups) enables new things ...
- Sites creating geographic data can use Google
maps for display
• Processing and combining information from
different systems is difficult when the
information is loosely structured and
designed primarily for human consumption.
• The Future (?)
- The Semantic Web
- Web 3.0
Supporting Web 2.0
• Supporting Web 2.0 technologies in the
University presents some difficult challenges:
- The technologies change very quickly.
- Services need to be “user-centric” and inter-
operable (not University-centric).
- People will use services from elsewhere
(rather than University services) if they feel
they are more appropriate.
- Using (free) external services raises important
issues - data ownership, security, reliability.
• Simple provision of central services is
almost certainly not (the whole) answer.
Exploiting Web 2.0

• How can the University exploit Web 2.0 ...


- For Teaching ?
- The difficulty is probably not in providing
the technology, but in understanding the
new modes of teaching and learning that
this enables (?)
- For Research ?
- For Administration ?
• How do we keep up to date and keep
people aware of the possibilities?
• Tim O’Reilly: “What is Web 2.0 ?”
• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/
news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

• A Video Documentary on Web 2.0


• http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/08/web-20-
the-24-minute-documentary/

• Short Articles on Web 2.0 & Social Computing


• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/24/
dark_hearted_web/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/
click_online/5391258.stm
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/
it_managers_guide_to_social_computing/
page2.html
• Podcasts on Web2.0 Sites
(See the earlier episodes previously called “Inside the Net”)
• http://www.twit.tv/natn3
• Social Networking Sites
• http://www.myspace.com/
• http://www.imeem.com/
• http://www.facebook.com/
• http://www.linkedin.com/
• Sharing - books, movie recommendations, photos, videos
• http://www.flickr.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/
• http://www.bookmooch.com/
• http://www.movietally.com/
• Blogs & Wikis
• http://www.blogger.com/start
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.vox.com/
• A Selection of Other Web 2.0 Sites
• http://www.chacha.com/
• http://www.pandora.com/
• http://www.jobloft.com/
• http://digg.com/
• http://www.threadless.com/
• Mashups
• http://news.com.com/2009-1025-5944608.html
• http://www.programmableweb.com/matrix
• Crowdsourcing
• http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/28/
crowdsourcing-no-way-back/
• A Few Research & Teaching Applications
• http://www.innocentive.com/
• http://www.digication.com/home/
• http://www.connotea.org/
• EUCS Web 2.0 Project
• http://www.mis.ed.ac.uk/services/wps/wpc/
oct06/

• Web 3.0
• http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/
2006/06/26/wikipedia-30-the-end-of-google/
Web 2.0 & the U
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Social technologies: from pioneers to
mainstream use?

John McIntyre Centre, Pollock


Halls of Residence, Holyrood Park
Road, Edinburgh, November 24th
2006

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/
dcspaul/publications/web2.pdf

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