Mashups and their Potential to Change the Face of Academia
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Description
Wikipedia defines a mash-up as “[the seamless combining] of content from more than one source into an integrated experience.” Students familiar with Web 2.0 applications have often already experienced the concept of mash-ups. Mash-ups in education are all about students taking the lead and designing their own education. This session will explore education mash-ups with the intent of demonstrating that the most successful educational institutions in 2020 will not only offer the most relevant and rewarding educational content, but will also facilitate student-centered learning, including student-designed mash-ups. Read More..
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Because so much information and media is freely available online via the World Wide Web, students familiar with Web 2.0 applications have often already experienced the concept of mash-ups, and have demonstrated proficiency at creating a seemingly endless variety of mix-ups and match-ups of multimedia content. These students take content, mash it up, and serve it in new ways, to an audience of a few friends, or a few hundred million strangers. Mash-ups in education are all about students taking the lead and designing their own education. Not only are college students proving that they are willing and able to mash-up content to create knowledge, they have shown that they are decreasingly brand-loyal to their universities. In this sense, students take advantage of Distance Education, continuing education, and articulation agreements to mash-up their course of study using multiple institutions to create their own educational experience. The most successful educational institutions in the next phase of the information age will not only offer the most relevant and rewarding educational content, but will also facilitate student-centered learning, including student-designed mash-ups.
