Report of an independent Committee of Inquiry into the impact on higher education of students' widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies.

Today's learners exist in a digital age. This implies access to, and use of, a range of Social Web tools and software that provide gateways to a multiplicity of interactive resources for information, entertainment and, not least, communication.

This report looked at access to digital technologies and their use from the point of view of level and pattern, purpose, approach and consequences.

Supported by the principal bodies and agencies in UK post-compulsory education, the committee was set up in February 2008 to conduct an independent inquiry into the strategic and policy implications for higher education of the experience and expectations of learners in the light of their increasing use of the newest technologies.