at Educause 2012

1. Making Education Social:
The FoxMIS Community Site
David Schuff (David.Schuff@temple.edu)
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems
Director of Innovation in Learning Technologies
http://community.mis.temple.edu/dschuff
Munir Mandviwalla (mandviwa@temple.edu)
Associate Professor and Chair of Management Information Systems
http://community.mis.temple.edu/mmandviwalla

2. Agenda
How The
How You
Education Community
Can Get
Becomes Site
Started
Social Concept
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3. The Changing “Lifeworld”
For one generation… Today…
• Structured and • Spontaneous and
planned ad-hoc
• Sequential • Event-based
• Individualistic • Collaborative

4. How did we get here?
Social
Blogging
media
Mobile Ubiquitous
technology web access
Everyone is a content creator
Everyone is a content aggregator

5. Architecture
Can’t create
doesn’t facilitate
Courses are silos communities
cross-disciplinary
around ideas
collaboration
No connection with Little ownership in
the larger the learning
community process

6. Model for Lifelong Learning (Delors et al. 1996)
Learning to Learning to Learning to Learning to
know do live together be

7. What the shift looks like
Content instead of Open instead of
courses closed
• Everything is just • Encourage use by anyone
information to be • Value is in interaction
consumed
Peer-to-peer instead Aggregation instead
of one-way of separation
• The instructor is a • View content as part of a
facilitator whole
• Students co-create content
with faculty

8. Two metaphors for “Social Education”
Technology: a blog Conceptual: a river
• Socially-enabled • All information flows
posting and sharing to a single location

9. The blog: a course

10. The blog: a faculty page

11. The blog: student e-portfolios

12. “The river”: Above the Fold

13. “The river”: Content Aggregation

14. “The river”: Site-Wide Activity Feed

15. A summary of the shift

16. What’s next
Check out: community.mis.temple.edu
Community-in-a-box project
Need new ways to evaluate success

17. What are the opportunities and challenges
of adopting “social education?”
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http://community.mis.temple.edu/edu12