it, education & co-production marshall van alstyne teaching day, boston university smg
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IT, Education & Co-Production
Marshall Van AlstyneTeaching 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
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• Student engagement• Quiet students speak up• Co-creation of content• P2P learning• Offload some work• Objective grading
Costs• Loss of control, complaints
public• Creates new “flow” work• FB private groups• Optimal collaboration vs
competition.
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!)
Ideas cluster together with individual expertise
Real Time Feedback
Information Overlap
Silo Model Shared Model
