Students are increasingly familiar with using social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube. This phenomenon has important implications for education as students increasingly expect such services – or at least aspects of them – to be mirrored in the delivery of courses.

In this podcast, JISC’s Lawrie Phipps and Dave White from the University of Oxford consider the impact of ‘Web 2.0′ technologies on education and research and how institutions can harness them effectively in support of their students.

Download the podcast here.