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Beyond Digital Natives: Old Problem, New Systems

Beyond Digital Natives:Old Problem, New Systems

Brian Kelly took part in a debate on the motion "This house believes that the continuing introduction of new technologies and new media adds little to the quality of most education" at the Beyond Digital Natives: Old Problem, New Systems conference which was held at Said College, Oxford on 4th April 2008.

Biographical Details

Image of Brian Kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus, a post funded by the JISC and the MLA which advises the UK's higher and further education communities and museums, libraries and archives sector on innovative technologies, standards and best practices to support use of the Web.

Brian has been active in promoting the benefits of the Web since January 1993 when he helped to set up a Web site at the University of Leeds - possibly the first institutional Web sites in the UK higher education community and one of the first 50 Web sites registered at CERN.

Brian encouraged the take-up of the Web within the UK higher education community during 1993 and 1994 - a time when many institutions appeared committed to making use of Gopher to provide this campus wide information system.

In 1995 he moved from the University of Leeds to work as the senior trainer for the Netskills training organisation, based at the University of Newcastle. A year later Brian moved to UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath.

Over the past two years Brian has been active in promoting the benefits which Web 2.0 can provide to the higher and further education communities. As well as giving many talks around the country Brian also set up the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop series, which has been running since 1997.

Brian's publications are available at the URL <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/>. Brian also posts regularly on the UK Web Focus blog which is available at the URL <http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/>.