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Pre-conference expectations

April 22, 2008 | Filed under: General

A couple of us from NextGen — including me — are attending the O’Reilly Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco this week. Before I head out, I thought I’d jot down a couple things I’m hoping to get from the conference.

First, I want to better establish a shared definition of Web 2.0 that we’ll use at Capella. Since CMOC was started one year ago, I’ve had many conversations where the term “Web 2.0″ is invoked, but it’s often clear that various people at Capella define it in different ways. This can obviously lead to misguided expectations or confusion. I want to finally resolve that this week.

Of course, I’m also excited to see coolness. There will undoubetdly be lots of “brain candy” on display: new vendors, new tools, new ways to use old tools, and stacks of interesting, intelligent people.

Mostly, though, I want to learn things about architecture and strategy that I can put into action for CMOC and Capella. Again: CMOC has been around for a year now. We are at the center of a few pretty critical initiatives for Capella — including developing our e-learning infrastructure to ensure learning outcomes transparency, and the effort to create Capella’s virtual campus, a transformed iGuide that will be the location where our learners, faculty, and staff interact with each other and with a wide variety of formal and informal content. We’re making progress on both of these efforts, but I’d like to accelerate the pace in 2008. So I’ll spend most of my time at the conference looking for things that we can put into place quickly.

I’ll try to post several times over the next few days. CMOCers who are reading this: let me know if there’s something in particular you want me to check out.

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