Sunday, September 19, 2010

Clark_Irene_New CMS Direction: Collaborate It. Interface It.

Whether it is stay at home moms driving the technology market demand instead of 13-year olds, or corporations and institutions attempting to exert more control over the Internet and its interactive tools (Web 2.0), or health care professionals having their clinicals or internships directly and immediately interfaced with learning outcomes and assessed via a PDA or cellular phone, collaboration and interfacing are driving the future of technology.

Although Shirky’s (2005) initial commentary on institutions and collaboration is a bit dated, the concept that one can allow people to remain where they are and bring the problem to them is a concept that continues to morph via various social networking sites beyond Flickr. Reintroducing corporate or institutional control seems counterproductive. Corporations purport to avidly pursue cost reducing avenues and outsourcing, through collaboration and interfacing, seemingly is one way to do it.

According to the website, Future W3C Semantic, establishing a common framework that shares data and reuses it across applications, enterprise, and community boundaries is the future of Web 3.0. This effort collaborates data and appears to be a logical sequence to Web 2.0 tools.

Shirky, C. (2005). Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration. Retrieved September 19, 2010 from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html


W3C (n.d.) W3C Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved September 18, 2010 from http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ

1 comment:

  1. Terrance says....
    According to Mahmoud (2010) slide share presentation on Web 3.0 he provides a comprehensive understanding of the implications that Web 3.0 will create for the future e-learning participants. The presentation establishes definitions of what a "Semantic Web" is including problems, solutions and applications.

    Clark_Irene_New CMS Direction: Collaborate It. Interface It. Says

    Whether it is stay at home moms driving the technology market demand instead of 13-year olds, or corporations and institutions attempting to exert more control over the Internet and its interactive tools (Web 2.0), or health care professionals having their clinicals or internships directly and immediately interfaced with learning outcomes and assessed via a PDA or cellular phone, collaboration and interfacing are driving the future of technology.

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