Projects Page 2
This page describes more of the projects that may be of interest to DLDC readers. These projects cover possible future for the web, viz., linked data; six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education; and, using community media to design innovative programs to address specific needs, e.g. improving agricultural practices, and linking to groups, both in the community and externally, to access useful and appropriate knowledge sources.
The Next Web of Open, Linked Data
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. In this TED talk he outlines his ideas about the next Web of open, linked data.
Horizon Report: Emerging Technology
The 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in this annual series, is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) (an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies) and EDUCAUSE (a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology).
The Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education over the next one to five years. The 2008 report focuses on;
- Grassroots Video
- Collaboration Webs
- Mobile Broadband
- Data Mashups
- Collective Intelligence
- Social Operating Systems
Each profiled technology is described in detail in the report, including a discussion of what it is and why it is relevant to teaching, learning, and creative expression. Specific examples are listed for each of the six topics.
Community Media for Learning
(From WikiEducator)
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) "Media for Learning" program aims to make media to be an effective part of the larger Open and Distance Learning process, especially at the community level and particularly in relation to COL's mandate to enable learning for development. Learning about what? Whatever a community's needs and priorities are. For some this means health issues, like HIV/AIDS, malaria or diabetes. For others, it means supplementing secondary school education in English, math and science. How do communities learn using media? By engaging with media to design innovative programs to address specific needs, e.g. improving agricultural practices, and linking to groups, both in the community and externally, to access useful and appropriate knowledge sources. What does COL focus on in this area?
- Building the capacities of media; and
- Supporting the establishment and growth of knowledge and learning networks.
Some of COL's initiatives include:
- Developing effective learning programs; Good practice: Community Radio Madanpokhara; Recent activity: Jet FM in Jeffrey Town
- Strengthening organisation: community ownership and participation, policies, sustainability planning; Upcoming activity: Radio Mang'elete
- Smart technology choices
- Open sourcing community media; Good practice: KRUU FM