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Meet Stuart Sim, CTO Common Need, as he gives the following presentation:

The Evolving Social Learning Platform

Web 2.0 has lead to the proliferation of user friendly tools and services that can be 'mashed up' to deliver engaging experiences on the web to support education. The problem is that most of these sites pull students from the campus Information Technology systems into richer social network environments where 'deeper learning' is happening away from the campus support systems. The answer is to adopt a blend of Web 2.0 integration strategies with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based back end to take advantage of rich tools and environments while capturing and nurturing the learning context inside the campus information systems.