Shortlist 2d

From Horizon Project

2008 Short List [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Webware Collaborative Workspaces Simple Video Capture and Sharing Community Tagging [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Mobile Geotagging Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds Scholarly Mashups [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Collective Intelligence Social Operating Systems Open Education Resources Alternative Interaction Devices [edit] Key Trends Growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools is changing our ideas of scholarly contribution and community Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship As the amount and variety of content increases, it is becoming more difficult to filter the noise to find the signal Smaller, more powerful devices are offering increased access and portability The gap between students’ perception of technology and that of faculty continues to grow The environment of higher education continues to change, with a growing trend toward open innovation [edit] Critical Challenges Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers There are significant shifts taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression, and learning, and a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy There is a growing need for formal instruction in 21st-century literacies, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy Higher education is facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment

Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years

[edit] Scholarly Mashups

A mashup is a unified combination of pieces of information from various sources. Scholarly mashups are mashups created for educational purposes. Scholarly mashups represent the intersection of multidisciplinary research and Web 2.0 tools. With easy-to-use tools for data visualization, mapmaking, and digital media creation, research from different disciplines can be juxtaposed in new ways to bring new insights to light. Scholars can participate at all levels, from sharing the results of original research to mining others’ data to experimenting with new tools to mix and display data in different ways.

Tools like Google’s Mashup Editor (http://code.google.com/gme/) make it relatively easy to create applications that grab online data, organize it, and display it the way the author wants. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created a Google Earth mashup that generates maps of the U.S. displaying air quality based on the amount and kind of pollutants emitted by businesses (http://www.epa.gov/air/emissions/where.htm). Applications can also be smaller and web-based; a mashup created by László Kozma combines data from Wikipedia and Google Maps to identify the location of authors posting updates to Wikipedia almost in real-time (http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/).

Not all mashups are about data visualization. Mashups can also be creative products of other kinds—unrelated film and music clips assembled into a parody of a well-known production, for instance. These creative pieces, also known as remixes, are a new form of creative and personal expression.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Remixes are an emerging art form and also can be an effective presentation tool.
• Research can be displayed on interactive graphs, charts, or maps that make the concepts clear.
• Web-based tools for manipulating data are easy to use, usually free, and widely available.

[edit] Examples

• Swivel lets you upload and generate graphs from your own data: http://www.swivel.com
• Mashup Feed collects links to mashups and to APIs for creating them: http://www.mashupfeed.com
• TutorLinker is a mashup that locates tutors in your area and plots them on a map: http://www.tutorlinker.com

[edit] For Further Reading

ABS to Open up Data for Online Mapping
(Angus Kidman, ZDNet Australia, October 16, 2007)
The Australian Bureau of Statistics plans to release its data for use in online mashups in 2008. Online Mashups

The Mash-up Future of the Web
(Bill Thompson, BBC News, February 19, 2007)
This article discusses the effect mashups may have on the Internet in coming years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6375525.stm

Mishmash of Mashups
(Wayne Hodgins, Off Course—On Target, July 25, 2007)
This blog post explains what mashups are (and aren’t) and suggests why they are useful for education. http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/ontarget/2007/07/mishmash-of-mas.html

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