Two new JISC podcasts on the subject of Web 2.0 were released recently.

The first is ‘What is Web 2.0 and how is it impacting on education?‘ It lasts about ten minutes, and acts as a briefing on some of the implications of Web 2.0 for educational institutions. You can download it and play it on your PC or an MP3 player. The official blurb says:

“Students are increasingly becoming familiar with using social networking and other interactive web services such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube. This phenomenon has important implications for educational institutions as students increasingly expect such services – or at least aspects of such services – to be mirrored in the delivery of courses.

In this podcast, JISC’s Lawrie Phipps and Dave White from the University of Oxford speak about the impact such technologies – commonly gathered under the umbrella term ‘Web 2.0′ – are having on education and research and how institutions can harness them meaningfully and effectively in support of their students. “

The second is ‘TechWatch’s Gaynor Backhouse talks about Web 2.0‘. “The JISC-funded TechWatch service recently published a major – and hugely popular – report on Web 2.0 and its implications for education and research. In this Podcast Philip Pothen speaks to TechWatch’s director Gaynor Backhouse about the work of the service and why the report has been so successful.” (I haven’t listened to that one).

See the RSC Wales Del.icio.us account Web 2.0 section for these and others.

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