The Summit

Tomorrow’s web experience depends on today’s web education. Shouldn’t web education reflect all of best features of the World Wide Web by advocating accessibility and usability for all? While this may sound like common sense, the fact is that this web education program doesn’t exist - yet.

At the Web Education Rock Summit the members of the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA) hope to change that. The WE Rock Summit will be hosted by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, giving Chattanooga the unique opportunity to be a part of an international movement within the web industry. While at the Summit OWEA members will further develop and position their new alliance to accomplish the mission of making standards-based web education a reality.

OWEA members are devoted to the cause of improving web education because there is a great need for change in how the Web is being taught. Many universities and schools do not teach web standards and best practices. As a result, students are woefully unprepared to meet industry demands upon graduation which in turn puts an unnecessary burden on employers who are then required to put extensive training into the graduates to bring them up to speed. The goal of OWEA is to bring together individuals, companies, and organizations with strong interests in the Web and web education. It’s time to help the next generation of web professionals’ rock!