EDUCAUSE | Social Computing and Presentations/Speeches

Practical Applications of Social Software

drupal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:49:24 -0600

Social software includes a variety of tools to develop and share text, image, audio, and video files as well as organize resources others create: blogs, wikis, RSS aggregators, podcasts, vodcasts, and more. While the quantity of options can be overwhelming, this workshop will provide an overview of different tool types along with step-by-step demonstrations and effective examples so participants can learn what these terms mean and fine-tune their understanding of social software. A discussion of practical uses of social software in teaching and learning will follow with examples. Participants will also brainstorm how these tools can enhance communication among IT staff and between IT staff, faculty, and students. Select social software resources will be created for this workshop group both for practice and to continue discussion well after the session ends. Participants will be surveyed in advance for a tailor-made program to benefit them the most.

Crafting a Campus Identity: First-Year Students, Residential Life, and Social Networking

drupal — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:22:11 -0600

This session reports on a study exploring the relationship between the use of social networking applications and campus life. Online survey data from 3,000 first-year students living on campus describes how students use Facebook to create academic and social identities. We will discuss the institutional implications of social networking on recruitment, retention, and campus academic technology.

Social Media and Education: The Conflict Between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future

drupal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:10:01 -0500

Today's technology enables users to form and join communities of common interest to learn and share information. In opposition to the privileged learning spaces of higher education, social media encourage learners to seek out their own answers and construct knowledge as a community rather than as individuals. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and Second Life offer new learning spaces, but how do they fit into the learning expectations of institutions?

Building Community with Virtual Spaces

drupal — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:14:13 -0500

Building a community of learners can be especially challenging when working with online and distance education students. By using social networking tools like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Second Life, we can begin to construct a community of sharing and participation that leads to enhanced satisfaction and a true sense of belonging.

Collaborative Social Networking: Copyright Nightmare, Dream, or Reality?

drupal — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:04:16 -0500

The collaborative nature of sharing media in social networks can present varied and challenging copyright issues. The knowledgeable application of copyright laws, policies, and practices are keys in determining if the use of your creative works by others and vice versa will be a nightmare, dream, or reality.

Many Students Loosely Joined: Social Software to Support Distance Education Learners

ckeller — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:18:22 -0600

Over the past decade, colleges and universities have increasingly turned to the web to increase student access, expand course offerings, and reach out to adult learners through online courses. The growth of distance and online education has been mirrored by a similar explosion in social software tools such as Facebook, Second Life, blogs, wikis, Flickr, and a host of Web 2.0 competitors that offer new ways for us to learn with and from each other. As our Web 2.0 toolbox grows, so do faculty and administrator concerns about control, privacy, assessment, and the effectiveness of these tools in the classroom.

In this seminar, Anderson will highlight an educational model for distance and online learning that leverages social software to help both learners and educators determine the most effective tool and granularity of application for their learning needs. He will also demonstrate a number of current and emerging tools and share practices that promise to help us learn from and with each other with an emphasis on social learning that includes groups, networks, and the collective.

Student Communication 2017: Meeting the IT and Networking Needs of Tomorrow’s Students

drupal — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:38:28 -0600

Students expect their university’s network to meet their academic and personal needs. So how can network administrators cope with a student body whose network needs for self-expression, learning, and creativity outpace the requirements of academic departments or (institutional) business practices? Is it possible (or just wishful thinking) to predict their demands? During this session, we will identify a few trends seen on today’s information-communication-technology landscape and address why we must continuously seek alternative and more efficient ways to meet the ICT services of tomorrow’s students.

Virtual Worlds as Web 2.0 Learning Spaces

drupal — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:07:25 -0600

Virtual worlds such as Second Life offer powerful teaching and learning opportunities by integrating participatory, social, and immersive media for student-centered learning. Learn about Second Life, its use as a learning space, and its predictive role in the future of learning.

The 2008 Horizon Report

drupal — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:07:25 -0600

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the NMC and the ELI, highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report. The 2008 Horizon Report and its findings will be officially released at this session.

Who's Afraid of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and the Big Bad CMS? A Digi-Drama About Fear 2.0

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:53 -0600

Web 2.0 tools have the power to transform education. Such a transformation requires that faculty, students, and institutions take risks. With those risks comes fear, which is often unarticulated. How do you tackle this fear and make real change? Join us to face this fear together in a multimedia, interactive miniplay.

Learning 2.0 at the McMaster University Library

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:52 -0600

Over the past year, the McMaster University Library has undertaken a radical transformation to accommodate the changing needs of our users. The transformation included a 12-week “learning 2.0” training program. The results have been significant. Come see how we did it and how we are using Web 2.0 daily.

RavenDesk: How Is Your Economics Course Like Your English Course?

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:51 -0600

RavenDesk is a web application through which students share conceptual connections between courses. Students thus build a view of their own and their campus’s intellectual life by exposing the interrelationships between courses. An ELI edition for conference presentations will also be available. See http://www.patrickgmj.net/project/eli-ravendesk.

Social Learning Using Cell Phone Technology at Montclair State University

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:52:02 -0600

Social learning enhances knowledge when students create learning environments by making connections among their peers and community. Educators struggle to develop innovative teaching strategies to meet the expectations of digital natives who are accustomed to this social environment. This presentation will describe how faculty at Montclair State University foster social learning using mobile technology.

Why You Should Use Facebook

drupal — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:56:19 -0600

The phenomenon of social networking software like Facebook has been widely publicized. At UNC-Chapel Hill, over 90 percent of first year students are Facebook users. But is there utility for faculty and staff? Yes! This presentation will describe the uses of Facebook that might benefit many of us.

Sophisticated and Productive Tools for Higher Ed: Web 2.0

drupal — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:56:19 -0600

Higher education can benefit from the web 2.0 revolution, from simple tools that allow groups to communicate to combining databases that produce an entirely new product. Social networking, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, videoblogs, and extensive use of multimedia are changing the way we process and use information.

Facebook Use on Campus: A Social Capital Perspective on Social Network Sites

ckeller — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:16:12 -0600

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. This talk reviews scholarship on social networking sites, focusing on the use of Facebook among undergraduate students. Nicole Ellison discusses findings from a recent study examining user practices and the social capital implications of Facebook use, demonstrating evidence of positive outcomes from some kinds of use. Educational applications of related technologies, such as blogging, is briefly discussed.

How to Cite This Work: Ellison, Nicole. "Facebook Use on Campus: A Social Capital Perspective on Social Network Sites." Presentation at the ECAR Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, December 5-7, 2007, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Analyzing & Improving Online Communities

ckeller — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:46:34 -0600

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. Successful online communities must be able to attract and retain a core of active participants. In this presentation, Robert Kraut will describe how the relationship between communities and new members develops. Because the relationship is especially fragile during newcomers' initial interactions, the success of these interactions is likely to determine whether the relationship survives. Kraut's analysis of over 200,000 messages from almost 25,000 newcomers to 99 Usenet groups shows that newcomers are much more likely to continue participating if their initial posts received replies, especially socially positive ones. Longitudinal studies and three field experiments show that introductions referencing commitment to the group increase the likelihood of getting a reply, while introductions emphasizing connections to the topic of discussion do not. This research both increases our understanding of a new social phenomenon and informs intervention that can improve the integration of newcomers into online communities.

How to Cite This Work: Kraut, Robert. "Analyzing & Improving Online Communities." Presentation at the ECAR Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, December 5-7, 2007, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

The Social Web

ckeller — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:40:50 -0600

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. The social web is reflecting a radical change in the nature of publishing: the who, what, why, and how of authoring is changing in ways not imagined even five years ago. In this talk we explore the new terrain of publishing and collaboration by visiting social web sites, and through online videos and even confessionals. We explore three key question areas: (1) Why is this happening? What are the technological and social drivers? (2) What does the social web mean for the future of authoring? Who will be in control? (3) Should information professionals support or resist these changes? How?

How to Cite This Work: Riedl, John. "The Social Web." Presentation at the ECAR Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, December 5-7, 2007, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Highlights of the 2007 ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology

ckeller — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:27:47 -0600

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents 10 key findings from the fourth annual survey of undergraduates, with responses from 27,846 students at 103 higher education institutions.
How to Cite This Work: Caruso, Judith Borreson, and Gail Salaway. "Highlights of the 2007 ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology." Presentation at the ECAR Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, December 5-7, 2007, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0

ckeller — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:58:50 -0600

Since the 1990s, we’ve been putting our Web courses in boxes, mastering enterprise course management systems, and striving for single sign-on seamless integration between all Web-enabled business and academic environments in each of our colleges and universities. Sometime around the turn of the century, however, explosive innovation on the open Web began to turn a “read only” environment into a “read/write” environment. With the development of RSS as a syndication platform, the read/write environment began to support and foster a very powerful, loosely coupled information architecture across the World Wide Web. In 2004, a group led by Tim O’Reilly gave this phenomenon a name: Web 2.0.

In this seminar, Campbell will explore the concepts behind Web 2.0, some of the individual tools and services (Flickr, Facebook, Second Life, del.icio.us) that are commonly listed under this rubric, and the implications of this phenomenon for teaching and learning, particularly in higher education. He will also present several ways in which he and his colleagues have used Web 2.0 tools and services, both as teachers and in their own learning, and comment on the good, the bad, and the ugly results. If time permits, he will also speak to the relationship between Web 2.0 and the open source software movement. Finally, he’ll offer some thoughts on what Web 3.0 might look like, and why educators should care.

Social Software in Higher Education: Isolated Accidents or the Start of Something Big?

drupal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:39:00 -0600

Blogs, wikis, and networking tools appear to gain widespread acceptance. How are higher education professionals using social software tools in their practice? Is there any convergence with what students using them bring to the institution? We will invite participation to explore these questions and determine if there are international differentiators.

Undergraduates Speak about IT: Results of the 2007 ECAR Survey

drupal — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:17:57 -0600

What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents key findings from the fourth annual survey of undergraduates, with responses from 27,846 students at 103 higher education institutions. Plans for 2008 will also be discussed.

Teaching and Learning Experiences in a User-Created Virtual World

drupal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:49:43 -0600

Second Life is a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. In this session, we’ll share our experiences of teaching in Second Life. Using the interaction combinations integration model we developed as a framework, we will describe our projects, outcomes, and recommendations.

Social Networking Technologies: A "Poke" for Campus Services

drupal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:24:34 -0600

Social networking software like Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube has become a way of life for today's students. In this session, we will explore whether and how we might use these technologies, or ideas they generate, to create better and more effective student and academic services at our institutions.

Let's Get Visual! Integrating Concept Maps, Rich Media, Social Software, and the LMS into Teaching and Learning

drupal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:46 -0500

Today’s students favor visuals and social computing tools, while instructors want to foster the development of deep, expert knowledge. Using concept maps connects student desires and instructor objectives. INHOLLAND University of Professional Education and the University of British Columbia have innovatively linked concept maps, rich media, and Web-based content.

At INHOLLAND University students learn in a visual and social online environment, using concept maps to engage in argumentation, writing, reflection, and brainstorming. Combinations of concept maps and rich media with a learning management system, wikis, and blogs help students create a unique yet structured viewpoint that retains a bird’s-eye view of complex ideas and concepts.

Instructors and staff from INHOLLAND, SURFdiensten, and UBC will discuss the process of choosing, implementing, and piloting a new concept mapping tool; demonstrate 10-plus practices and templates; and present tools in a hands-on manner.

A Discussion on Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation User Values

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:38 -0500

Join this panel that continues the discussion addressed in a 2006 EDUCAUSE Quarterly article by McDonald and Thomas on the disconnects between library culture and millennial generation values. Panelists will cover three broad areas of demographics, design, and social outreach as related to the needs of the millennial library researcher.

Emerging Worlds: Transformative Technologies for Teaching and Learning

ckeller — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:19:26 -0500

Web 2.0 projects have rapidly expanded into a world of social media. From blogs to podcasts, millions of people have published and shared a growing amount of digital content. At the same time virtual worlds have grown in popularity, from massively multiplayer games like World of Warcraft to metaverse projects like Second Life. How do these two movements apply to higher education? Where do Web 2.0 and the metaverse connect? What trends are emerging for the near future?

Using Second Life

drupal — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:59 -0500

Are you ready to use an online virtual world tool for your work, research, and online or campus classes? Come join the fun as we explore Second Life, offer tips on getting started, and show examples of course and research strategies from this virtual world. This session is suitable for participants who are new or have moderate experience with work in Second Life.

Beyond Course Management Systems: Second Life

drupal — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:58 -0500

What technologies will follow the success of course management systems? This presentation will discuss the roles of virtual worlds and mobile devices in faculty-student interaction and learning. Learn how free, online virtual world tools such as Second Life let students and instructors meet and collaborate to work on projects and exchange information. Today's students use cell phones and iPods to stay connected. Learn how educators can take advantage of this always connected life style to enhance learning. Examples will be provided of initiatives under way to incorporate Second Life and mobile learning into the curriculum, both here and around the globe.

The Disruptive Nature of Technology

drupal — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:21:07 -0500

Web 2.0 and other emerging technologies invite exploration, innovation, and building with “small pieces loosely joined.” Yet those opportunities can disrupt traditional academic processes that undervalue amateur participation, discourage faculty from venturing outside their realm of primary expertise, and look to “enterprise solutions” for administrative convenience. Can the academy include “half-baked ideas” in its core mission and processes? This session will address these issues from the perspectives of an insider (teacher, scholar, and administrator) and an IT professional outside the academy. Brief introductory remarks will be followed by robust discussion.

Student Perspective Video - University of Dayton

drupal — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:16:42 -0500

This video from the University of Dayton shows students discussing in their own words how and why they use social networking applications such as Facebook. It streams from the University of Dayton Web site in Windows Media format.

Transforming Digital Content into Learning

ckeller — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:50:35 -0500

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. This presentation was part of a panel discussion about the challenges of harnessing the power of digital content to support learning at scale in both institutional settings and in national efforts. They considered the potential roles of digital content as cognitive media and social media, and they used cases and models that highlight best practices and sticky issues.

Human Futures for Technology and Education

ckeller — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:41:14 -0500

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. In January 2007, Michael Wesch released a video on the history of the Web called "The Machine is Us/ing Us." The video quickly tracks the transformations of the Web from its beginnings as a place to retrieve information into a vibrant user-generated and user-organized platform of RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, social networks, and folksonomies that encourage, enhance, and capitalize on collaboration. At the video's end, Wesch suggests that these transformations require us to begin rethinking virtually everything, from authorship and copyright to our sense of identity and selfhood. These new technologies also have profound implications for education. What possibilities and challenges do they bring to our teaching? What should we be teaching to students who are habituated to a new media environment where Google and Wikipedia are always at their fingertips? How are these technologies changing the way students learn and assess information? In short, we need to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and whom we think we are teaching. For this presentation, Wesch creates another video in the same genre as "The Machine is Us/ing Us." Like the earlier video, this video quickly tracks the important moments in the history of education and attempts to capture the possibilities and challenges of the current moment in such a way as to pose and clarify some of the most important questions facing us as educators today.

The University in a Networked Economy and Society

ckeller — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:14:50 -0500

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. When Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, came out, Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig said, "This is -- by far -- the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. If there is one book you read this year, it should be this." This work examines the ways in which information technology permits extensive forms of collaboration that may have transformative consequences for economy and society. Benkler's presentation outlines the characteristics of the networked information economy and the roles of collaboration and commons-based production of information, knowledge, and culture, and it suggests avenues to apply these broad trends to education and education-related policy.

Net Generation Students and Campus IT: Supporting Student Success in the Age of Multitasking, Facebooking, and Instant Messaging

drupal — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:14:15 -0500

What do we need to know to support student success in all facets of their higher education experience? IT services affect the success of students from the day they begin searching for a program or school to their eventual departure and beyond. What do students want us to know about them, and what we can do to make their educational experience successful? This facilitated panel of college students will cover current trends and needs of today's students, as well as how to make their educational experience more successful.

The Year in Review

drupal — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:17:51 -0500

What's past is prologue. As we look ahead to the policy questions facing the Internet today and tomorrow, it's useful to recall what we've seen over the past 12 months, and that's what we'll do during this session.

On the Cutting Edge with Social Software in the Learning Process

drupal — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:00:09 -0500

Social software has created exciting new dynamic possibilities for teaching and learning. What are the uses of wikis, blogs, podcasts, Facebook, and the like, and how is academia incorporating them into teaching? This faculty panel will address social software and pedagogy while sharing their experiences from the point of choosing a software, implementing it, and assessing its value to the learning process.

Concurrent Sessions on Learning

drupal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:06 -0500

-The Impact of Computer-Simulated Haptic Force Feedback on Learning (Innovation Hall B) - Gary R. Bertoline and Enkhtuvshin Dorjgotov
- Immersive Learning Environments in the GeoWall (Nortel Workshop Room AB) - Michael M. Kelly
- Remote Labs (Collaboratory) - Phillip D. Long
- ECON201: An Online Game for College Credit (Innovation Hall A) - Jeffrey K. Sarbaum
- Immersion and Engagement in a Virtual Classroom: Using Second Life for Higher Education (BB&T Multimedia Classroom) - Sarah Smith Robbins

Immersion and Engagement in a Virtual Classroom: Using Second Life for Higher Education

drupal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:06 -0500

Second Life, a multiuser virtual environment (MUVE), is the most cutting-edge virtual world available to educators today. This parlor presents a case study of one of the first university English courses held within Second Life. Participants will learn about the course and then have an exciting hands-on experience in Second Life.

Virtual Learning Environments in 3D

drupal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:05 -0500

Virtual Learning Environments in 3D We've passed through Web 1.0, entering the architecture of participation. Wikis and other read/write Web 2.0 capabilities provide a collective voice and opportunities for collaboration. They remain, however, fundamentally textual. Emerging now is the Web with shape and form--the 3D virtual world (VW). As education becomes global, will immersive 3D VWs learning spaces provide a persistent new home campus? Discuss.

The World Is Flat: Using Blogs and Skype to Create Communities of Learners and Cultural Literacy

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:40 -0600

This session will discuss how social software and Web 2.0 tools have been used on campus to connect learners and countries, to encourage cultural literacy, and to create communities of practice and mutual apprenticeship to create quantifiable learning outcomes for writing and language students both in and outside the classroom.

The Next Generation of Digital Learning Spaces: Exploring the Frontier of Virtual Worlds

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:40 -0600

The use of virtual worlds affords students and educators the ability to break free from the confines of traditional classrooms and online learning spaces. Pioneers of this emerging technology will discuss the creation of the New Media Consortium virtual campus as well as present case studies that will illustrate successes and challenges in this new learning frontier.

A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:40 -0600

Facebook represents a growing number of applications that provide communication, connection, and community building among users, so please bring your laptop to this session for an introduction to this cool new tool! We will learn how to create an account, make "friends" (connections with others you know or would like to know who share common interests), and use various functionalities such as bulletin boards, "poking," or posting content such as text, photos, and video. If the prognostications are true that e-mail is for old people and social networking is the new killer app, then come join the future!

Raising the Library's "Cool" Quotient: Enhancing Academic Environments with Social Networking Services

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:38 -0600

In order to make the library more relevant, innovative, and contemporary for 21st-century learners, San Diego State University Library and Information Access is maintaining a profile on MySpace. This poster session will discuss the impact an academic library's presence on social networking services has on student learning.

First-Generation Ubiquitous Computing: Social, Mobile, and Gamelike

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:38 -0600

Cybercultural transformation has spawned new forms of expression and community formation. Gaming, social software, and mobility have synthesized the first generation of global, ubiquitous computing. Education has already remapped onto this space outside the academy, while academia take its first steps. This session will survey the contours of what has emerged, with discussions on policy and popular culture.

The 2007 Horizon Report: Six Technologies to Watch

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:38 -0600

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report and the findings of the 2007 edition. The 2007 Horizon Report will be officially released at this session.

Team Building in Virtual Worlds

drupal — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:15:36 -0600

The use of virtual worlds provides a means for educators to bring a simulated real-world experience to the classroom. This case study will explore how undergraduates were able to go beyond the confines of the classroom space to gain team-building skills through the use of the virtual world Second Life.

Social Computing: Lifestyle Becomes a Workstyle

drupal — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:43:09 -0600

Presentation at the Fifth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 6-8, 2006, in Carefree, Arizona. This talk focuses on understanding the culture and design criteria of social software and how they both reflect and impact institutions and organizations.

Facing Facebook and Other Social Networking Technologies

drupal — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:23:22 -0600

It's been said that if a campus wants to know what its students are doing, Facebook is the place to go. While some campuses have banned Facebook due to real or potential abuses, others are focusing on the positive and constructive promise of social networking not only for social life but also for institutional communications and teaching and learning missions. If you're starting a capital campaign at your institution, why not use social networking technologies for your alumni too, so they can create communities, post video and photos past and present, and "poke" old friends? In this session, Tracy Mitrano and Nicky Rho discuss the power, policies, and potential for social networking technologies, particularly Facebook.

Resource Sharing in a Self-Organizing Online Forum

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:51 -0500

Open Learning Support is social software integrated with MIT OpenCourseWare that allowed users to find each other to ask/answer questions. This session will describe how learners shared resources to answer questions about math and science course content. It will also describe the process of improving an online forum to meet learner needs.