Viral University Education (vue) http://nostatic.com/hewlett/ Open Content, Social Software and Networks - Todd Richmond, Ph.D. en Copyright 2006 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:36:54 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss open content photos another Flickr query, this time for open content

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/07/open_content_photos.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/07/open_content_photos.html interesting Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:36:54 -0800 viral marketing photos from Flickr - viral marketing tagged photos.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/07/viral_marketing_photos.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/07/viral_marketing_photos.html viral Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:34:24 -0800 Full Proposal OpenContent has made significant progress in expanding and extending the reach of educational material. This project seeks to better understand and facilitate the uptake of this content by using a variety of social software tools and technologies to create viral learning communities and content.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/07/full_proposal.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/07/full_proposal.html proposals Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:57:20 -0800 Compelling Reasons 1. We are approaching a tipping point with regards to digital education, and OpenContent should play a lead role. Critical to this is understanding how to enhance learning communities around the material.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/compelling_reasons.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/compelling_reasons.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:13:16 -0800 Evaluation Evaluation will take place in three phases, following the natural workflow of the project. These include:

1. Input and evaluation of the initial survey report based on data gathering
2. Input and evaluation of preliminary experimental design
3. Input and evaluation of results of experimental practice

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/evaluation.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/evaluation.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:12:23 -0800 Inputs Personnel:

Todd Richmond (PI) – 40% effort
Research assistant – semester and summer support (part-time)
Programmer – short-term projects

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/inputs.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/inputs.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:11:31 -0800 Activities Portal Development: An existing effort coordinated by the Institute for Studies of Knowledge Management (ISKE) involves the creation of a portal designed to aggregate and disseminate content from the Open Educational Resources project (OER). The PI will serve on the advisory board of this group, and has already begun collaborating with the developers on the design and implementation of the beta version. This portal will be an integral part of the viral and community experiments that will follow, and will undergo iterative development informed by the social network/social software experiments and vice versa.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/activities.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/activities.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:10:40 -0800 Outcomes Main outcomes involve:

Increased contact with material (numbers of users)
Increased engagement with material (depth of use)
Increased community of learners (connection of users)

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/outcomes.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/outcomes.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:09:33 -0800 Problem OpenContent has made great strides in providing digital content to a broad student constituency. There is still considerable work to be done in the dissemination and uptake of these materials, especially with regards to building learning communities around the assets. Leveraging expertise and capabilities in a variety of social software tools along with deep content knowledge, a number of experiments into how material can be made viral are proposed.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/problem.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/problem.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:08:35 -0800 Background The USC Annenberg Center for Communication is an independent organized research unit focused on interdisciplinary work in the field of digital communications, broadly defined. Over the past few years the Center has focused a significant amount of work in the area of social software and is now recognized as a leader in the application of those technologies in academia. In addition, the Center’s other associated projects including the NetPublics research cohort, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, and Labyrinth Project provide considerable breadth and depth in the areas of digital content creation and dissemination. As managing director for the past five years, the PI has been involved in varying degrees on all of these endeavors, but particularly in social software (having presented at major conferences on the work) and NetPublics (as co-founder of the effort).

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/background.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/background.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:07:14 -0800 Summary OpenContent has made significant progress in expanding and extending the reach of educational material. One challenge that remains is to better understand and facilitate the uptake of this content. Using a variety of software tools and technologies, most notably from the broad area of social software, experiments in creating viral communities and content will be undertaken, largely by leveraging existing assets. Some of the existing material may be augmented when appropriate with other approaches. These experiments will partner with the nascent OER portal.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/summary.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/summary.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:03:22 -0800 Short Blurb OpenContent has made significant progress in expanding and extending the reach of educational material. This project seeks to better understand and facilitate the uptake of this content by using a variety of social software tools and technologies to create viral learning communities and content.

]]> http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/short_blurb.html http://nostatic.com/hewlett/2006/02/short_blurb.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:05:13 -0800