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Social Software Tools in Education: Maximizing Collaboration and Engagement

This article explores the benefits and costs of various social software tools in education, such as Facebook, Jive, Yammer, and more, for enhancing collaboration, communication, and engagement among students and faculty. It discusses how these tools can improve student participation, facilitate group support, and offer unique features compared to traditional learning management systems.

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Social Software Tools in Education: Maximizing Collaboration and Engagement

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  1. IT, Education & Co-Production Marshall Van Alstyne Teaching Day, Boston University SMG

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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”

  8. 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

  9. 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!)

  10. Ideas cluster together with individual expertise

  11. Real Time Feedback

  12. Information Overlap Silo Model Shared Model

  13. GuidedCo-production of learning Questions: marshall@mit.edu @InfoEcon on Twitter

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