Futurelab: Social software and learning

Martin Owen (1) , Lyndsay Grant (1) , Stephen Sayers (1) , Keri Facer (1)

1 Research and Development

This report explores the relationship between the emergence of social software and the personalisation of education. It suggests that there is a changing view of what education is for, with an emphasis on the need for young people to develop the skills necessary for today's evolving global knowledge economy. Alongside this development is the rapid growth of social software, characterised as software that supports group interaction, and by combining these two trends there is significant potential to see a new approach to education. (http://futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education/social_software_01.htm)

Keywords: blogs

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Stephen Sayers, Keri Facer. Futurelab: Social software and learning. 2006. ⟨hal-00190335⟩