Assignment 1 – Part 1
International Business Machines (IBM) & The University of Arizona, America.
Describe the use of the particular technology
The partnership between IBM and the university was developed as both the business and campus realised that there was a need to train students interested in Management Information Systems, who will then become the people that will help to manage all the Web 2.0 tools in the future. Not only does this beneft IBM in terms of recruiting innovative and creative students, whom may end up being the authors of the next facebook-like phenomen to hit the web, the university also understands the growing educational requirements of future students. These future students are the same generation of kids currently exposed to all the web 2.0 tools.
Students are taught how to create and manage communities with tools such as Facebook in order to increase their leadership and communicative skills with other people. Social netowrking tools, which vary to technologies such as blogs, wikis and virutal worlds in combination with the developer community within IBM that specialises in creating new internet tools and services to benefit the companies of tommorow.
Context of the learners and where learning is situated
Learners will be able to manage their own group or communities such as students from high schools and utilise any social networking methods and software to demonstrate their success in managing online communities. Assignments are both group based and individual based. Any undergraduates undertaking the management information system course will have to develop an online communities, which are geared towards certian objectives or goals.
In this way, by placing the learners in roles of being moderators or administrators of their own online communities, learners would be exposed to how these social networking tools, software and management practices are implemented within other organisations.
http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/education/doc/content/news
/pressrelease/1832371110.html
Social Networking and Social Sharing
Facebook was founded in 2005 by a couple of Harvard students and at first was based on an invite-only system limited only to certian universities, which eventually expanded to universities all around the world. At present, anyone is welcome to join Facebook and has become particularly successful with being able generate user revenue through marketing and advertisements. An example would be the thousands of applications such as online gaming/gambling and pay-for-gifts to send to other users.
Describe the use of the particular technology
However, many universities have used it as a tool to allow for more open communication between students and staff and for some companies such as IBM, Facebook also serves as a recruitment tool to attract graduates. It acts more like a common area where anyone can meet and discuss common interests whether they be business or educational prospects. Hence, Facebook isn’t just being used for social purpose.
In many ways, Facebook could be transformed into UTSOnline-like portal to deliver important class announcements and allow for students and teachers to communicate more freely.
A major and unique feature of Facebook is the abundance of applications, which are continually being sent around by friends and contacts all around the world. What if someone or a group of educators decided to develop an application, which contained a flash based adventure game that required answering of questions relating to chemistry designed for yr 12 students to help revise for the Chemistry HSC Syllabus? Or how about training modules being delivered through Facebook applications?
Currently, there has been little development in terms of educational applications, which combine the interactivity and fun-ness of playing gamest
EDUCASE
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7025.pdf
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Facebook,+MySpace,+and+Co.:+IHEs
+ponder+whether+or+not+to+embrace…-a0162303039
Social Sharing example – Delicious
http://web.pacific.edu/x4989.xml
http://veronique-online.blogspot.com/2007/10/looking-inside-facebook.html
