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Brian Kelly gave a seminar on The 'Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World' Report: Implications For IT Service Departments which was held in the BUCSA Seminar Room, University of Bath on 1^st June 2009.

Abstract

The theme of this talk is the impact which social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies is likely to have on higher education in the future. This will include the impact on staff and students in the institution, the providers of institutional IT services and the staff themselves in institutional support services.

Slides

Responding to the 'Web 2.0 in higher education' Report: Implications For IT Service Departments

[MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]

Video of Talk

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Biographical Details

Brian Kelly has been involved in Web development since January 1993, when he helped to established a Web site at the University of Leeds (one of the first institutional Web sites in the UK). Since 1996 Brian has been employed at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath in the UK. His responsibility is to advise the UK's higher and further community and the cultural heritage sector on ways of maximising the potential of the Web.