Keynote: “Where is the mentor?” — New ways of support learning (ED-MEDIA 2008)

Peter Scott, Director of the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK, spoke about mentoring. Technology is cool, but is only valuable in the way it supports and enables people. So it’s useful to contextualise tools as follows:

social content like wikis
communicative content like blogs
social awareness like IM
social visualisation like Second Life
social search like Facebook
social telepathy like [...]