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And now for the really fun part…ethics and the Web

This post is authored by Anni Rowland Campbell and was originally posted on her blog, Intersticia Last week the Web Science Institute hosted it’s first Ethics Symposium. The event drew together a wonderfully diverse audience who were treated to with two excellent presentations from Woodrow Hartzog and Mireille Hildebrandt plus a vigorous panel discussion moderated by Thanassis Tiropanis. Continue reading →

First Meeting of WSI Advisory Board

On Monday evening the first meeting of the WSI Advisory Board took place on campus, followed by a fabulous evening and meal at the home of our new Vice Chancellor, Sir Christopher Snowden, and his wife Irena. Continue reading →

Highlights from #WWW2016 in Montreal

Highlights from the 25th International World Wide Web Conference, April 2016 https://storify. Continue reading →

Distinguished Lecture by Dr Ted Nelson: “Two Cheers for Now”

(Review written by Tom Davidson and Tom Rowledge and orginally posted on the Digichamps blog) Recently, WWW pioneer Dr Ted Nelson came to the University of Southampton to deliver a web science lecture; entitled ‘Two Cheers for Now’. Broadly speaking, this was a fascinating lecture covering the progress of the web to where it is today, alongside an examination of some of the alternatives that were developed alongside the world wide web. Continue reading →

Starting soon: two new mini-MOOCs for our Web Science series

The University of Southampton and FutureLearn have recently launched two new courses in the Web Science MOOC Series. The original 6 week Web Science MOOC needed an update (amazingly it’s nearly 3 years since we started on this journey!) We have now split that course into a number of 2 week mini-MOOCs, with updates to the existing content and plenty of new material. “The Power of Social Media“ (#FLSocialMedia) begins on 25th April. Continue reading →

The Power of Social Media: our latest Web Science mini-MOOC

Tomorrow sees the launch of our latest Web Science mini-MOOC with Futurelearn - "The Power of Social Media". The course begins on 25th April and students from the Curriculum Innovation module "Online Social Networks" will be putting their learning directly into practice as they participate in the MOOC with learners from all over the world. Continue reading →

University of Southampton MOOCs: the how and why

Kate and I were very pleased to present a summary of Southampton's progress with MOOCs and their impact within the classroom to FutureLearn's Partner Advisory Group Event yesterday. It was an honour (and a challenge!) to follow on from such inspirational and energetic speakers as Peter Horrocks, VC of the Open University, Simon Nelson the CEO of Futurelearn, Helena Gillespie Director of Teaching and Learning at UEA, and many others. Continue reading →

Bringing MOOCs into the Classroom

http://www.slideshare.net/lisaharris/bringing-moocs-into-the-classroom The last WSI / ILIaD lunch event of 2015 focused on the value our MOOCs are adding to 1) the University of Southampton brand and 2) the delivery of established courses at the University. You can watch a short summary video and the full presentations by Kate Dickens from ILIaD, Les Carr and Lisa Harris from WSI, and Kate Borthwick from LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Continue reading →

Digichamp review of JP Rangaswami’s distinguished lecture

There are a number of new Digichamps as noted in my previous post. We threw a group of them in at the deep end yesterday to record and review the WSI Distinguished Lecture by JP Rangaswami: Chief Data Officer at Deutsche Bank JP Rangaswami's Distinguished Lecture in tweets and photos https://storify. Continue reading →

Welcome to new Digital Champions!

It was great to see so many old and new faces at the Digital Champions "start of year lunch" the other day: From last year we have Tim O'Riordan, Sarah Hewitt, Gareth Beeston, Bartosz Paszcza (all from Web Science), Alex Hovden (Physics) and Sylvian Patrick (Digital Marketing). Newbies signed up so far this term are Amanda Herron, Hourik Sarafian and Ashley Stout (Digital Marketing) and Nic Fair and Dola Majekodunmi (Web Science) and there are more to come... Continue reading →

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Lisa Harris

Educational innovator & disruptor at University of Southampton. Champion of Web Science, Digital Literacies & Digital Marketing MOOC. Open access only please. Fascinated by transformative potential of technology for education and business.

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