Social Learning In Multimedia

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Papers:: Phase One: Theoretical Background; Phase Two: National Studies
: SLIM Network Private Work Area

SLIM is a major EC supported project involving 8 national research centres based in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany.

SLIM investigated the process of innovation in multimedia : the convergence of information, communication and broadcasting technologies, highlighting the role of social learning, the widely dispersed interactions between producers, intermediate and final users and policy-makers which are critical to the future evolution and success of multimedia.

Final Report published Jan 2000

A number of books were published from this project, notably

Robin Williams, James Stewart and Roger Slack (2005) Social Learning in Technological Innovation: Experimenting with Information and Communication Technologies, Edward Elgar

Published by the Research Centre for Social Science,,
University of Edinburgh