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Mumbai 7-12 January 2013
Su White
Web Science: Expanding the Notion of Computer Science White and Vafopoulos http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22710/
@suukii
University of Southampton
Excellence in teaching and research Opto Electronics Nano Electronics Computer Science Web Science (and others) ~110 academics ~200 research staff ~300 PhD ~800 UG, ~350 MSc
Founded 1862, Charter 1952 25,000 FTE Students Russell Group, Top 15 UK, WUN Excellence in: (Opto)Electronics, Computer Science, Oceanography, Engineering (esp. Nautical and Aero) Acoustics
Electronics and Computer Science
Web Science at Southampton
� Web and Internet Science Group
� 20 Faculty Members (subsuming Learning Societies Lab)
� Doctoral Training Centre
� Research areas include � Open Data � Semantic Web � Memories for Life � Trust, privacy and
provenance � Learning with the Web
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Specialisms – me and my immediate colleagues
Conceptual Structures for STEM data: linked open rich and personal
Conceptual structures Thinking
and learning
Knowledge and
representation
epiSTEME 5
ICCS2013
Socio Politico Dimensions Nation State Universal education Equality, diversity, change
Conceptual Structures for STEM data: linked open rich and personal
Thinking and Learning and
Knowledge and Representation STEM Education
Educational Processes
Change-> Beliefs->Experience -> Practice ->
Conceptual Structures Teachers (instructors and Curriculum Designers)
Researchers (Theorists, Evaluators) Learners (young, adult, CPD, independent, informal ++)
Classroom
Lab Wild
Change-> Beliefs->Experience -> Practice ->
What? Where?
Why? How?
acknowledge
The world is changing…
The world is changing… Our beliefs, actions and behaviours are shaped by our experiences
Our beliefs actions and behaviours are shaped by our (vicarious) experiences
Culture, tradition, popular culture, texts, books, cinema, TV, mass media,
web
The Web
The most successful information architecture in history Nigel Shadbolt
The Web exponential growth and impact
Internet in India and the world
Perhaps 121 million of India’s 1.2 billion population on internet 2012
c.f. China 38% 513m US, 78% 245 m In, 10% 121 m
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities_small.png
The two magics (Tim Berners Lee, 2006, 2007)
The Web exploiting emergent networks
emerging new business models
Emergent/open content and collective intelligence
The new web landscape
Digital literacies
Meme machine apps and
apps
Platform citizen science
Shop window ebay,
amazon
Context mobile Vehicle
texts video
Searching Information
creation blogs
From rent a coder, to wikilogia, from flikr to Pinterest, itunesu to Tedx sharing, ownership, micro-charging, new models, Tripit meme machines
Educationally…
Situated cognition, peer instruction, informal learning, digital literacies, self efficacy, social construction, co-creation – but these are not mobiles…
� How many devices can you buy for the cost of a teacher
� Diversity, not instead of, but as well as?
� Example: syria wikilogia, facebook informal learning, digital literacies
� Texts, campaigns, employment?
� Models: co-creation, deduction, application memes
� Informal and accidental learning
� Blogging for reflective journals, collaborative texts via wikis
We can still use flashcards, and social games, learn from texts etc But…powerful affordances may emerge, evolve…’games’ as vehicles for learning
Open and linked data Text and links were not enough
Via social web “software that supports group interaction” Web 2.0, perpetual beta
Consumers and producers? The read write web
Machine and human readable Lightweight and heavyweight modelling
Open Data
Students might contribute to collecting assembling open data e.g. vocabularies geographic data, plant census, open mapping, disease and health markers opportunities for authentic activities, situated learning, reward, contribution
Big Data
ASBOs, Dentists and Tubes
And Haiti a citizen open map in two weeks … with millions of users the Indian context will emerge
Open Access: ePrints 10 years old
http://www.eprints.org
EdShare – Repositories meet Web 2.0
Learn from the success and methods of collections in the wild
Semantically Driven Web Sites (ECS Web Site)
Crowd sourced open data map � Mashup of crowd sourced
data plus official data
� Amateur effort
� Useful and visible
� Interrogate the data points interactively
http://opendatamap.ecs.soton.ac.uk
With apologies…. Adapted from image used by tbl, originally from the economist I think
We want to climb over the walls…
OERs, OCW and MOOCs open educational resources massively open online courses
Potential? � Modelling (theory to
practice) � Shared curriculum design? or � Emerging the curriculum
from resources
� Learning environments � Multi-faceted � Automation – assembling,
aggregating � Collaboration for community
enterprise � Standardisation?
Customisation?
Remembering: face to face/social may be more important
The challenges � Ride on the wave of change
� Empower learners to take charge of their destinies
� Craft a future for the citizens of tomorrow embracing diversity and mastering the whole spectrum of technologies
� Shape and craft the classroom for maximum mutual benefit – the citizen and the nation state
Thank You J
Dr Su White
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
@suukii
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