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IT, Education & Co-Production. Marshall Van Alstyne Teaching Day, Boston University SMG. Strategic Mgmt Society - Facebook. Benefits Free Very familiar Students already there Can get good discussion Great news feeds Costs Can have exclusive subgroups.
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IT, Education & Co-Production Marshall Van Alstyne Teaching Day, Boston University SMG
Strategic Mgmt Society - Facebook Benefits • Free • Very familiar • Students already there • Can get good discussion • Great news feeds Costs • Can have exclusive subgroups. • Still need Blackboard, Sakai or etc.
Jive Benefits • More commercial / fully functional • Great collaboration tool • News feeds like FB • Private and public groups Costs • Not as widely used • Not a freemium model
One Laptop Per Child - Yammer Benefits • Free • Very like Facebook • Great group support & news feeds • Replace blackboard Costs • Can get too noisy • Groups still tend toward non-overlap • Almost too unstructured
Q&A - Piazza Benefits • Students answer each others’ questions • Faculty can designate “approved” answers • Recurring question just reused Costs • Not a collaboration tool • Not a news tool • Still needs blackboard
Twitter Jim Freedman uses twitter • Students share news • Discuss at class start • Enters in class participation grade • 12 of 40 highlighted as great experience Costs • Participation drops when class ends
Barter Information Market Benefits • Students answer each others’ questions • “Experts” become readily visible. • Supports questions,news, documents, ideas. Costs • Points can be competitive • Points “grubbing”
Social Software Overview Benefits Costs Loss of control, complaints public Creates new “flow” work FB private groups Optimal collaboration vs competition. • Student engagement • Quiet students speak up • Co-creation of content • P2P learning • Offload some work • Objective grading
Gamification Faculty designs question set for each module. Crowdsource new questions to students. Students pass each module once they’ve demonstrated learning. Compete for high scores. Take as often as like (or not!)
Information Overlap Silo Model Shared Model
GuidedCo-production of learning Questions: marshall@mit.edu @InfoEcon on Twitter