Overview
Web 2.0 in University Life is a research project that explores the implications of media change for the future of Oxford University. To this end the study explores how Web 2.0 technologies are now routinely appropriated by undergraduate, masters and research students currently studying in Oxford to meet their needs as learners. The overall aim is to develop methods and identify themes warranting further investigation. These are intended to be used for a larger scale project that explores young people's use of new media in a variety of informal contexts.
Arguably, a study focussed on the changing practices of this group can help us better understand the complex relationships between learning, motivation, agency and identity in the new media age and arguably ‘peer into the future’ of higher education. This project develops work completed by Russell Francis for his doctoral study, The Predicament of the Learner in the New Media Age.
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For further information please e-mail Russell Francis |
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