Are all the children in their bed?

1. Are all the children in their bed? Derek Law Information Resources Directorate, University of Strathclyde

2. Welcome to Glasgow • City of Culture • City of Architecture • City of deep fried Mars Bars • Strathclyde - A Place of Useful Learning • The home of WWW

3. W3, Urban myth,authentication and censorship Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown chappin’ } knockin’ } keekin’ } at the windows, speirin’ } keekin’ } checking} at the locks, “Are all the children in their beds? eight o’ clock} ten o’ clock } ” It’s past

4. An internal tool or an external propaganda weapon? Information and quality assurance Are we responsible? Censorship and curfews Napster, spam and MUD Version control Ownership Anon – or William Miller? Centralisation versus decentralisation A pointless argument? Themes

5. MLE’s, VLE’s and teaching for dummies • A single standard or interoperability? • Who is responsible for e-learning strategies? • The Vesalius conundrum • Holding forth or holding the jackets? • Have academic services ANY role in forcing change?

6. Research Infrastructure • How can web services support research? • Data mining • OAI • Webmail • Document Management

7. Student centred systems • Happy days • Happy hours • Sad anoraks • Sado masochists • Monitoring usage

8. MIS • We know where you live • Data Protection, RIP and policing the boundaries • Who “owns” data? and therefore can change it

9. Conclusions • Who wants web-based services? • Who needs web-based services but doesn’t know it? • Who is responsible for originating change? • Who is responsible for delivering change?