Date

2011-02-11

Lecturer

Jaime Moreno (UAM)

Summary

The evolution of the Web in the last ten years has brought the democratized this media, end users have taken the main role of information providers, but increasingly also the roles of application developers and service providers. 

Throughout this time it has acquired great importance a new philosophy of Web applications and the combining various existing technologies (AJAX) to make these applications more friendly. Typical applications of Web 2.0 take advantage of the Web structure, social networks, collective intelligence and people collaboration. . In the knowledge field of CSCW, groupware is a technology designed to facilitate teamwork and collaboration. This technology is applicable in various fields such as occupational, recreational or educational. Applications of Web 2.0 can take advantage of groupware. Reciprocally philosophy and current Web technologies provide a very suitable support for collaborative systems. Therefore, today is not only an ideal time to implement collaborative systems on the Web, but also to incorporate the philosophy and approach of Web 2.0 to such systems.

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid sobre "Aprendizaje colaborativo y redes sociales" - Web 2.0: Sistemas colaborativos from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author Biography

Jaime Moreno (UAM)

Jaime Moreno-Llorena is currently Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and has worked since 1989 in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ITC) in diverse areas. He started his R&D activity in Fundesco (Telefónica foundation) with the use of ITC for disabled people, and then as a researcher at the Scientific Centre IBM-UAM with the use of ICT for multimedia interactive systems, electronic publications and digital storage of archives and libraries. Afterwards, he worked for companies in the ITC sector for several years: at ISP Servicom as Webmaster and developer of many of the first Spanish commercial Websites; at the ABS Consulting Company where he collaborated in the design and deployment of several ISPs; and in Grupo Prisa (Spanish mass-media group), where he took part in the development and operation of Web publications and digital services for masses. Since he joined the UAM in 2001 he has  worked in the fields of CSCW, Knowledge Management and CSCL (e-Learning and Blended Learning), all of them using the Internet and the Web as platforms. During this period he has participated in the Spanish national projects of R&D ARCADIA, MosaicLEARNING, eMadrid, METEORIC, AECID A/7954/07 and AECID A/017436/08 , and also in Teaching Innovation Projects of UAM.