Learning and Teaching

Walking the Cloud – Workshop outcome

ALT-C 2011

Define Web 2.0 and the Cloud from a

learning perspective

LEARNERS
Shiny Tools
Personal
They are all the same thing
Not part of the formal academic world
What does it do?
Not conceptual
Openess
Social identity
Didadatic model
Communication / PRACTITIONERS
Opportunities
Copyright?
Issues of user generated content
Who owns it?
Check your links – if referring students
Good for distance and work-based learning
Firewall
Control
Surrendering Control
Off-campus
Shared Area
Independent hardware
Read/Write web – not just read web
Collaborative working opportunities
Set of tools for interaction & communication
Services can disappear
Beware the Firewall!
Advantages & Disadvantages
Working outside your institution
Range of different learning opportunities
Sustainability

What are the legal challenges with Web 2.0 and

the Cloud from a learning perspective?

LEARNERS
Privacy
What is private information?
How do I keep info private
Understanding privacy & their rights
Not applying privacy settings when available
Ownership & Plagiarism
Am I plagiarising when collaborating
Loss of IP
Who owns it?
When is imitation plagiarism?
International Law (Patriot Act)
Not sure of legal implications / PRACTITIONERS
Jorum - Better indexing needed
Takedown Policy
Plagiarism
Image grabbing and reuse on VLE
Need to educate staff
Copyright & intellectual Property
Collaborative Services
Disappear
Buy Out?
Glabalisation
Institutional contracts with students
Keep their work safe
Licensing & Creative Commons
New area to a lot of practitioners
Risk Management?
Fear of the law stifles action & innovation

What measures can we take to ensure we stay within the law and harmony exists between the VLE and the Cloud

LEARNERS
Need guidance on law
What are my responsibilities to other students and staff using tools
We need defined enforceable information rights
Online ethics – what is good practice
Companies have own agenda – not the universities (Facebook)
Strong leaderhip – we follow this lead
Need to be informed
Want ease of moving between VLE & Cloud
Institutions choose good & appropriate tools
Education re digital identity
Staff need to know and advise us
Better tools which make it explicit that content is being shared / PRACTITIONERS
Poof – it is gone!
Student safety
Do they need both/
Students want a separation
Practical advice on what to do
Covenant
Why are we asking them to do an activity?
How does it support student learning?
Concerned with security
Blame culture
Use the right tools for the job
Give us the tools to do the job
Control of web resources
Work with academics to provide good environment
University image/profile
Digital curation
How?
Where??
Who Pays???

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Learning and Teaching - 7 September 2011