Comments on: Future trend: crowdsourcing content In higher education

By: neeli

neeli — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:24:09 +0000

nice post especially video is very informative. i also have released a website related to education technology http://www.technologiez.net
you can join me anytime

By: mojaam

mojaam — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:02:23 +0000

My school recently released a website for students to do this kind of thing: http://be.umbc.edu/

By: Brandi Muhammad

Brandi Muhammad — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:23:57 +0000

Your post is so right and on time. It is time for the colleges and universites to step up their game if they want to attract students.

I am a current student and I do think that the staff should develop a more digital savy way to get students in the doors.

By: Tiffany Odutoye

Tiffany Odutoye — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:13:18 +0000

Great post!! I was just looking at a few seminars around new tools, trends and technology for the educational sector. While your focus is on higher ed, I believe there is something to be said here about the way students, parents and alumni of all age groups (K-16) want to interact and the opportunities created via the open-web for building community, even within the younger classroom.

The big question is, privacy and data ownership. When the artists “gives rights” to record, you are safe, but what will happen if content (photos, digital recordings or short video clips) is captured in a classroom and and republished? What happens when it’s a paid venue? I’m not debating, just interested in the dialogue.

What are the rules of engagement? Will we begin to see a shift in policy and privacy within the educational sectors?

I’m curious and find your post very interesting!

Thanks.
Tiff-
@virtualpartner

By: Andy Shaindlin

Andy Shaindlin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:55:19 +0000

Mike, you are right on with this. I am especially interested in ways to make it easy for alumni to contribute.

There’s a fine line between taking advantage of someone’s time and effort (and not compensating them), versus channeling their interests and wishes into something that benefits others. We will find that balance and use it to catapault our interactions to a more engaging level.

Great topic and comments, thanks.

By: Kevin Prentiss

Kevin Prentiss — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:13:52 +0000

Mike – Great post. We’re definitely following the same path and have been working on it for awhile.

You can see a quick intro to parts of our thinking here:

http://tinyurl.com/ydebjke

We’re focused on three things:

1) pedagogy: teaching “digital identity” in the first year experience classes. (http://fye.swiftkick.wikispaces.net/ )

2) technology: a school directory that aggregates and sorts feeds of student /faculty content to create relevant learning communities, among much else (http://www.redroverhq.com)

3) community / modeling: creating model communities of peer to peer learning and engagement (that just happen to throw off tons of great content) (see #sachat on twitter and http://thesabloggers.com )

There will be lots of versions of the technology – buddypress and drupal could both work for the feeds platform – but the basic components will be necessary for all schools.

All this is ready right now : ) let’s get going.

By: Bradjward

Bradjward — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:32:34 +0000

“Let’s face it, the staged photos of a professor leading a faux discussion with a group of students who happen to cover all races and genders isn’t going to cut it for much longer.”

We’ve been saying that for years now. And oh how I hope you’re right this time. Great post!