University 2.0 (revisited)
Since my first post on this strange new term called ‘University 2.0’ I’ve read a bit more, and posted a bit (about other stuff, but posted none the less).
I found this great set of slides on SlideShare which (should) appear below but, as per usual, I don’t think it worked. So, click the link below to see if it doesn’t work:
I would like to point you to slide 19 …
“Video all lectures and seminars, build podcasts, blog and video blog everything, open discussions with the ‘outside’, build University wikis, encourage lecturer and student ad-hoc student content creation, open access delivery system. Share with all.”
… which would be great, wouldn’t it? Actually, no I don’t think it would, and I’d already thought that before I watched the rest of the slides. Chris continues with what he says are three basic problems to this; ownership, social networks, and trust.
More than this, is it actually ‘worth’ using all this modern technology? Does it actually give us any ‘value’ for the student’s money? Will the students still be happy to stump up thousands of pounds a year to study at home, with all content and interaction given purely online? I know I sound a bit of a hypocrite, seeing as I work on a fully-online programme, but the University as a whole is still based in the real world and the (online) students know there is a physical building with real staff and procedures in place to support them through their studies, if they need them.
Can we be taking this too far? It might be one thing to introduce these wonderful tools to our teaching and learning, but to base the whole campus and system on them (and whatever is developed next) … are we too far routed in the real world to accept this new concept? I know I am, but are the Millenials / Generation Y?
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