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<\/span>Whitaker and Geyer identify user-added value as one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0, and as discussed elsewhere this can be conceived as a huge paradigm shift for all involved.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It has seemed to me a sign of these fast moving times that some four months later we\u2019re questioning whether Web 2.0 now spells the end universities in-house software development (Walk and Kelly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukoln.ac.uk\/\">UKOLN<\/a>, University of Bath).<span>&nbsp; <\/span>A straw poll was conducted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ltg\/events\/shock2007\/\">Shock of the Social 2007<\/a> conference, and the perhaps unsurprisingly (from a predominantly &#8216;in house&#8217; crowd) the answer was a generally resounding \u2018No\u2019.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>That said \u2013 it is clear the universities are anxious to appropriate, and in some respect re-sell the strengths of social networking technologies.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>If the technologies themselves (folksonomies, wikis and so forth) are simply batched and integrated into students PLEs various concerns must be expressed.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Whilst this conglomerate offers a dynamic pitch to the university portal \u2013 in discussion \u2013 issues of branding and control of external services were weighed by delegates.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Implicitly, the accessibility of these technologies and universities responsibility to diverse student groups, (not to mention obligations to the DDA) mean these factors must be addressed from the outset.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>MySpace has proven the potential horrors of user controlled content, and as accessibility discourse races to address the hype of 2.0, I realise I am still unaware of any large scale, funded accessibility research or audits of the pack leaders amongst the current student portfolio of Web 2.0 technologies.&nbsp; We need a benchmark.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Shock 2007: Does Web 2.0 Herald The End Of In-House Development And Provision Of IT Services?\", \"120\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"120\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>In November last year, Roger Geyer and Steve Whitaker (University of Virginia) discussed the notion of Perpetual Beta in the virtual classroom at the Universitas 21 conference on e-Learning and Pedagogy.&nbsp; Whitaker and Geyer identify user-added value as one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0, and as discussed elsewhere this can be conceived as a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}