MashED Up: Mashups and Higher Education

Doug Gapinski and Laurel Hechanova will be presenting on mashups in higher education at the edUI conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, later this fall.

Here’s an abstract for the presentation:

With the proliferation of gigantic media repositories such as Flickr and Youtube, social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, and new ideas about open source data, mashups that allow people to repurpose data on one site for use somewhere else are becoming more and more common.

We’ll look at several examples of what mashups are used for, including changing context of data, resurfacing content, visualization, way finding, entertainment, and more. We’ll even look at how some institutions are using mashups to support their brands. Specific examples will be shown inside and outside of higher education, and we will touch briefly on a couple of common tools for creating mashups.