IT, Education & Co-Production
Marshall Van AlstyneTeaching Day, Boston University SMG
Strategic Mgmt Society - FacebookBenefits
– Free– Very familiar– Students already there– Can get good
discussion– Great news feeds
Costs– Can have exclusive
subgroups.– Still need Blackboard,
Sakai or etc.
JiveBenefits
– 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 - YammerBenefits
– 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 - PiazzaBenefits
– 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 MarketBenefits
– 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.
GamificationFaculty 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
GuidedCo-production of learning
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