Keynote presentation at ICCS2013 and epiSTEME5 in Mumbai 11 Jan 2013 abstract of accompanying paper

1. Mumbai
7-12 January 2013

2. Su White
@suukii
Web Science: Expanding the Notion of Computer Science White
and Vafopoulos http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22710/

4. University of Southampton
Founded 1862, Charter 1952
25,000 FTE Students
Russell Group, Top 15 UK, WUN
Excellence in: (Opto)Electronics, Computer Science,
Oceanography, Engineering (esp. Nautical and Aero) Acoustics
Electronics and Computer Science
Excellence in teaching
and research
Opto Electronics
Nano Electronics
Computer Science
Web Science
(and others)
~110 academics
~200 research staff
~300 PhD
~800 UG, ~350 MSc

5. Web Science at Southampton
— Web and Internet
Science Group
— 20 Faculty Members
(subsuming Learning
Societies Lab)
— Doctoral Training
Centre
— Research areas include
— Open Data
— Semantic Web
— Memories for Life
— Trust, privacy and
provenance
— Learning with the Web

6. Specialisms – me and my
immediate colleagues
6

7. Conceptual Structures for STEM data:
linked open rich and personal

8. Conceptual structures
Thinking Knowledge
and and
learning representation

9. epiSTEME 5
ICCS2013
Socio Politico Dimensions
Nation State
Universal education
Equality, diversity, change

10. Conceptual Structures for STEM data:
linked open rich and personal
Thinking and Learning
and
Knowledge and Representation
STEM Education
Educational Processes
Change-> Beliefs->Experience -> Practice ->

11. Conceptual Structures
Teachers (instructors and Curriculum Designers)
Researchers (Theorists, Evaluators)
Learners (young, adult, CPD, independent, informal ++)
Classroom
Lab What? Where?
Wild Why? How?
Change-> Beliefs->Experience -> Practice ->

12. acknowledge

13. The world is changing…

15. The world is changing…
Our beliefs, actions and behaviours are shaped by our experiences
Our beliefs actions and behaviours are shaped by our (vicarious) experiences
Culture, tradition, popular culture, texts, books, cinema, TV, mass media,
web

16. The Web
The most successful information architecture in history
Nigel Shadbolt

18. The Web
exponential growth and impact

19. Internet in India and the world

20. Perhaps 121 million of India’s 1.2
billion population on internet 2012
c.f.
China 38% 513m
US, 78% 245 m
In, 10% 121 m

21. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities_small.png

22. The two magics
(Tim Berners Lee, 2006, 2007)

23. The Web
exploiting emergent networks
emerging new business models

24. Emergent/open content and
collective intelligence

25. The new web landscape
Context
Shop mobile Vehicle
window
texts
ebay,
video
amazon
Platform
Searching
citizen
Information
science
Meme
machine Digital creation
apps and
apps
literacies blogs
From rent a coder, to wikilogia, from flikr to Pinterest, itunesu to Tedx
sharing, ownership, micro-charging, new models, Tripit meme machines

27. Educationally…
Situated cognition, peer instruction, informal learning, digital literacies,
self efficacy, social construction, co-creation – but these are not mobiles…

28. — How many devices can you buy
for the cost of a teacher
— Diversity, not instead of, but as
well as?
— Example: syria wikilogia,
facebook informal learning,
digital literacies
— Texts, campaigns, employment?
— Models: co-creation, deduction,
application memes
— Informal and accidental
learning
— Blogging for reflective journals,
collaborative texts via wikis
We can still use flashcards, and social games, learn from texts etc
But…powerful affordances may emerge, evolve…’games’ as vehicles for learning

30. Open and linked data
Text and links were not enough
Via social web “software that supports group interaction”
Web 2.0, perpetual beta
Consumers and producers?
The read write web
Machine and human readable
Lightweight and heavyweight modelling

32. Open Data
Big Data
Students might contribute to collecting assembling open data e.g. vocabularies
geographic data, plant census, open mapping, disease and health markers
opportunities for authentic activities, situated learning, reward, contribution

33. ASBOs, Dentists and Tubes
And Haiti
a citizen open map in two weeks
… with millions of users
the Indian context will emerge

34. Open Access: ePrints
10 years old

35. EdShare – Repositories meet Web
2.0
Learn from the success and methods of collections in the wild

36. Semantically Driven Web Sites (ECS
Web Site)

37. Crowd sourced open data map
— Mashup of crowd sourced
data plus official data
— Amateur effort
— Useful and visible
— Interrogate the data points
interactively
http://opendatamap.ecs.soton.ac.uk

38. We want to climb over the walls…
With apologies….
Adapted from image used by tbl, originally from the economist I think

39. OERs, OCW and MOOCs
open educational resources
massively open online courses

40. Potential?
— Modelling (theory to
practice)
— Shared curriculum design?
or
— Emerging the curriculum
from resources
— Learning environments
— Multi-faceted
— Automation – assembling,
aggregating
— Collaboration for community
enterprise
— Standardisation?
Customisation?
Remembering: face to face/social may be more important

41. The challenges
— Ride on the wave of change
— Empower learners to take
charge of their destinies
— Craft a future for the
citizens of tomorrow
embracing diversity and
mastering the whole
spectrum of technologies
— Shape and craft the
classroom for maximum
mutual benefit – the citizen
and the nation state

42. Thank You J
Dr Su White
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
@suukii

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