Tag Archives: social media
Garage Universities
I am wary of playing too much into the Silicon Valley myth, and nothing can be more central to that myth than the garage start-up. Nonetheless, the idea of a “university start-up” seems almost unfathomable, outside the less-than-interesting world of for-profit universities. I may want to buy a Tesla (automobile start-ups probably pre-date the Silicon […]
Posted in Policy & Politics, Teaching Also tagged e - commerce, eBay, Facebook, Garage Universities, LinkedIn, microcredential infrastructure, Paypal, Reid Hoffman, social networks, Tesla, twitter 2 Comments
Empty Endorsements
It seems like every day, I get another message from LinkedIn that someone has endorsed me. I suppose my first reaction is a short burst of pride or happiness. It’s hard not to feel this when someone says you are good at something. Then the resentment takes over. Because LinkedIn endorsements are meaningless. At best, […]
Posted in Research Also tagged badges, Information Society, LinkedIn, Reputation, Social information processing, Web 2.0 1 Comment
Columbia Course on Social Software
Interesting syllabus for a course at Columbia’s Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (found via weblogg-ed). They are also aggregating content, through the del.icio.us tag “ccte”. It’s not clear to me if they are also using del.icio.us to tag their own blog entries, though that would be a pretty effective way to go about things. […]
Posted in Teaching Also tagged augmented learning, EduBlogging, Scholarly Communication, Social computing, Systems Seminar, Teaching Leave a comment
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