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Empowering Learners and their Institutions: Strategies for Exploiting the Social Web

Empowering Learners and their Institutions: Strategies for Exploiting the Social Web

Brian Kelly facilitated a masterclass on "Empowering Learners and their Institutions: Strategies for Exploiting the Social Web" at a 1-day workshop on Technology Supported Learning in the 21st Century: Sustaining Innovation via Organisational Development held on Wednesday 7th June 2010 at the University of Staffordshire.

The session took place from 2:00-2:45. The session consisted of a short talk followed by group discussion.

Note that the Twitter hashtag for the event is JISCENABLE.

Abstract

The early adopters of Web 2.0 technologies and approaches are now increasingly seeing their initial adoption of Web 2.0 becoming embedded in mainstream University activities.

But the risks and dangers which sceptics warned about haven't disappeared. So how should institutions go about addressing such risks in order that use of Web 2.0 approaches can provide significant and sustainable benefits? These issues will be addressed in this session.

Slides

Empowering Learners and their Institutions: Strategies for Exploiting the Social Web
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Biographical Details

Image of Brian Kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus, a post funded by the JISC to advise the UK's higher and further education communities on best practices in use of the Web. Brian is an experienced speaker on a variety of topics related to use of Web 2.0 and the Social Web. Brian is also a pro-active use of various Social Web services to support his professional activities. He has published over 700 posts on his UK Web Focus blog since its launch over three years ago and also contributes to a number of other blogs. He was also an early adopter of Twitter which complements his mainstream blogging activities.

Brian has also published a variety of peer-reviewed papers, with a particular focus on best practices for Web accessibility. He has presented at various international conferences and has recently given invited keynote talks at conferences held in Sweden, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.

Brian works at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management, which is based at the University of Bath.