The 2008 Eduserv Foundation Symposium will examine the changing nature of ICT service provision in UK higher education and the potentially disruptive impact of Web 2.0, social networks and other recent Web trends on educational institutions.

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Symposium buzz

What makes a good tag?

Yonks ago (that's... like.. you know... quite a long time ago) I suggested to the web-support@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing list that we needed an agreed set of tags for labelling UK universities and colleges in Web 2.0 tagging services. I'd raised the issue because we had just agreed with John Kirriemuir that he would create a Flickr pool in order to collect images of UK HE and FE activity in Second Life, as part of the series of snapshots that we are funding, and we wanted a way that people could c

From Disruptive To Innovative Technologies

In a report on the recent eFoundations Symposium Ale Fernandez has given his thoughts on the discussions which took place on the symposium back channel in which there seemed to be agreement that the term ‘disruptive technologies’ was increasingly counter-productive and proposed use of the term ‘innovative technologies’: “it surfaced that I wasn’t the only one who thought a more positive terminology (like “Emerging Technologies”) would be more conducive to positive adoption on campus or even ju

Metatrends: The Horizon Project at Five Years

I was fortunate enough to catch Laurence Johnson’s presentation at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008 a couple of weeks ago. Laurence is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 200 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centres, and technology companies dedicated to using new technology to inspire, energize and support learning. The NMC produces, as part of its Emerging Technologies Initiative, an annual Horizon Rep

Metatrends: The Horizon Project at Five Years

I was fortunate enough to catch Laurence Johnson’s presentation at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008 on Thursday 8th May. Laurence is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 200 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centres, and technology companies dedicated to using new technology to inspire, energize and support learning. The NMC produces, as part of its Emerging Technologies Initiative, an annual Horizon Repor

Hughes Parry hall

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Hughes Parry hall

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Forum

WiZiQ free Virtual classroom

What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform. Mark w...

Tagged: virtual_classroom, virtual_whiteboard, free, web_2.0, classroom_2.0

Started by Mark Cruthers 14 Jun

Questions, questions... 12 Replies 

Got a question? Feel free to ask it here.

Tagged: efsym2008, eduserv

Started by Andy Powell. Last reply by Roger Greenhalgh 8 May.

Welcome to the symposium social network

What is this? It's a social network for this year's Eduserv Foundation symposium - a space where you can find out who else is going to be at the event and what their interests are. Why have we cre...

Tagged: efsym2008, eduserv

Started by Andy Powell 29 Apr

 
 

About Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008

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Video streaming

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Evaluation

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About the symposium

Created by Andy Powell Apr 27, 2008 at 10:10pm. Last updated by Andy Powell 7 May.

LiveChat

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Speakers

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Wireless access

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Programme

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