The University in the Age of Web 2.0: A Value Proposition
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The document discusses the necessity for universities to adapt their operations in response to the transformative impact of social media and Web 2.0 technologies, which have rendered traditional institutional controls over knowledge and communication obsolete. It highlights that universities, as modernist organizations, are at a disadvantage in this new landscape and must embrace collaborative and co-constructed learning experiences to remain relevant. The text emphasizes the importance of integrating personal development with cognitive growth through innovative educational practices.
The University in the Age of Web 2.0: A Value Proposition
- 1. The University in the Age of Web 2.0: A Value Proposition Dalton Institute on College Student Values 2013.01.31 Tallahassee, FL
- 4. I WANT TO STUDY NOT ONLY WHAT THE COMPUTER IS DOING FOR US, BUT WHAT IT IS DOING TO US.- Sherry Turkle
- 5. Universities must change the way they operate to survive and remain relevant.
- 6. This argument rests on 2 premises
- 7. Premise 1
- 8. social media & web 2.0 represent a REV OLUTION (a tipping point for radical organizational change)
- 9. Premise 2
- 10. Universities are inherently MODERNIST institutions and are ill-equipped to respond to this revolution.
- 11. Social media and Web 2.0 technologies 1 have pushed us to a tipping point for massive organizational change. Universities are ill-equipped and at an 2 organizational disadvantage to respond to this change. THEREFORE Universities must change the way they operate to survive and remain relevant.
- 13. Understanding Web 2.0
- 15. a click here
- 16. takes you there
- 17. this guy Tim O’Reilly I coined the term Web 2.0
- 18. The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
- 19. In explaining this I’d like to use 3 metaphorsfor what universities have lost
- 20. WE’VE LOST THE SHELF BULLETIN BOARD BLACKBOARD
- 21. The Shelf
- 22. Knowledge used to be tied up in books
- 23. and the university was the sole provider and keeper of this knowledge
- 24. Going digital changed this. The Web changed this.
- 25. 1996
- 26. Yahoo, faced with the possibility that they could organize things with no physical constraints, added the shelf back. - Clay Shirky
- 27. 2013
- 28. We no longer need a curator. We can search for anything and everything.
- 29. The university lost control of The Shelf Being the exclusive source for knowledge
- 30. WE’VE LOST THE SHELF BULLETIN BOARD BLACKBOARD
- 32. Previously, the university could control communication through the limited means available. It was a funnel...
- 33. it could control its message.
- 34. In the digital age this control is no longer possible.
- 35. Social media has exploded. Communication methods are ubiquitous and ever-present.
- 36. There is a higher SIGNAL to NOISE RATIO
- 37. The university lost control of The Bulletin Board The ability to communicate to a captive audience
- 38. WE’VE LOST THE SHELF BULLETIN BOARD BLACKBOARD
- 39. The Blackboard
- 40. With the blackboard... The learning is up here!
- 41. Lectures are common
- 42. Structures divide the student and the teacher
- 43. Social media breaks down these barriers
- 44. Diverse learners and diverse learning styles are welcome... and celebrated
- 45. learning becomes a co-constructed experience.
- 46. The university lost control of The Blackboard The ability to rely on old methods of instruction and ignore multiple learning styles.
- 47. WE’VE LOST THE SHELF BULLETIN BOARD BLACKBOARD
- 48. So what is the way forward for the university?
- 49. a few articles have been written...
- 50. Why College Is Still Relevant in the Age of Free Information by Hansoo Lee January 06, 2012 1. The Network 2. Direct Professional Development 3. Personal Development 4. Brand
- 51. Open Educational Resources and the Role of the University by Anka Mulder, Volume 46, Number 5, September/October 2011 The University as a... Content Provider Learning Community Certification Body
- 52. in order to remain relevant I believe universities must...
- 54. a seamless blend of personal development and cognitive growth
- 55. requiring faculty and student affairs collaborations
- 56. creating co-constructed Learning partnerships guided internships... immersive study abroad experiences... living learning communities... service learning... Dr. Marcia Baxter-Magolda
- 57. For the university, the best defense against the network is for the university to become a network itself.
- 58. Social media and Web 2.0 technologies 1 have pushed us to a tipping point for massive organizational change. Universities are ill-equipped and at an 2 organizational disadvantage to respond to this change. THEREFORE Universities must change the way they operate to survive and remain relevant.