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What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education

Acabei de receber via e-mail o link para um interessantíssimo relatório do JISC ( Joint Information Systems Committee) sobre as possibilidade da web 2.0 - What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education.

Em 64 páginas são apresentadas de forma clara e concisa várias hipóteses de utilização das ferramentas baseadas na web 2.0 bem como a sua aplicação em contexto educativo. Todos os capítulos são complementados com links para bons exemplos de utilização destas ferramentas.

"This TechWatch report was commissioned to investigate the substance behind the hyperbole surrounding "Web 2.0" and to report on the implications this may have for the UK Higher and Further Education sector, with a special focus on collection and preservation activities within libraries. (...)

The report establishes that Web 2.0 is more than a set of "cool" and new technologies and services, important though some of these are. It has, at its heart, a set of at least six powerful ideas that are changing the way some people interact. Secondly, it is also important to acknowledge that these ideas are not necessarily the preserve of "Web 2.0", but are, in fact, direct or indirect reflections of the power of the network: the strange effects and topologies at the micro and macro level that a billion Internet users produce. (...)

As with other aspects of university life the library has not escaped considerable discussion about the potential change afforded by the introduction of Web 2.0 and social media. One of the key objectives of the report is to examine some of the work in this area and to tease out some of the key elements of ongoing discussions. For example, the report argues that there needs to be a distinction between concerns around quality of service and "user-centred change" and the services and applications that are being driven by Web 2.0 ideas. This is particularly important for library collection and preservation activities and some of the key questions for libraries are: is the content produced by Web 2.0 services sufficiently or fundamentally different to that of previous Web content and, in particular, do its characteristics make it harder to collect and preserve? Are there areas where further work is needed by researchers and library specialists? The report examines these questions in the light of the six big ideas as well as the key Web services and applications, in order to review the potential impact of Web 2.0 on library services and preservation activities."

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No final do relatório 8 páginas de bibliografia permitem aprofundar os conhecimentos sobre este tema e como não podia deixar de ser grande parte são, felizmente, recursos electrónicos.
Ainda não terminei de ler todo o relatório, mas parece-me bastante completo e acessível.

2 comentários:

Luísa Alvim disse...

será mesmo possível saber o número de utilizadores? acredito na progressão geométrica, mas acredito que basta 1 falhar...não será uma nova utopia. Adoro utopias.

Bruno Duarte Eiras disse...

Olá, Luísa
Não sei se vai ser possível mas é bom achar que será conseguido. Vamos lá colaborar na iniciativa!