Social Operating Systems Questions
From Horizon Project
[edit] 2008 Research Agenda Topics
[edit] 2007 Activity |
[edit] The 2008 Horizon Report: Toward a Research Agenda
With the release of the 2008 edition in this annual series, the NMC is continuing the concerted, international effort started last year to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2008 edition of the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.
[edit] What are the missing pieces for Social Operating Systems to be implemented in higher education?
- New business models for hired are needed
- A willingness to engage with the other, talk about identity and contact zones. We do not do this in higher education.
- A willingness to experiment, to collaborate an understanding of what collaboration means at all levels of learning.
- Understanding of how it works; privacy issues to be resolved; campus buy in, especially from the over-50 group.
- Support structure, faculty understanding, better reward structures.
- Technology that is super attractive (usefulness, ease of use, ubiquitous) and used by everyone.
- Codeless developer aps, integration across different systems.
- Codeless application development tools.
- Philosophical underpinning and collection of exemplary practices.
- Integrating with local/university; CMS/LMS
- Consistent and coherent systems that can be made ubiquitous.
- How can we use these to move away from CMK's.
- Privacy issues using operating systems not institutionally supported.
- A "browser" of sorts, along with a communication protocol to run it; a metaphor people could understand to be able to navigate this.
- Open access, lack of control from central system.
- Not broadly - universally used - especially by staff; we need it to be ubiquitous technology.
- Probably knowledge & understanding of the application.
- Security, the system might know too much.
- Implement open ID on campuses.
- Clear privacy guidelines that both meet the sensitive needs implicit in scholarship but that don't know, confuse the hell out of scholars education of students/users on how to be sophisticated/cautious users.
- Shared platform, mobility.
- Changes in tenure and promotion standards to include innovation (+/in) scholarship of teaching and learning.
- Add your comments here
[edit] What kind of research would you like to see around Social Operating Systems
- How can social/education networks extend learning opportunities for students?
- Qualitative, narrative instances of successful interaction along the borders between groups.
- More of everything (sorry can't think).
- What implications does it have for my (our personal lives; how much information is to be gathered and how.
- Examples of people implementing these systems.
- Use of SOS to engage students in university life and result in faster time to graduation, community service and other outcomes.
- Can social operating systems support multiple identities for 1 person.
- Intersection between community and social operating systems. Do communities generate?
- The rich internet application as the forerunner of the social op system.
- Large vs small class involvement
- Advantage and disadvantages of harnessing tech from the cloud in University.
- Integration of SOS into daily life.
- Continuity of info and work; faculty development/next generations ID's.
- Tracking learning vs. socializing.
- Proof of concept.
- Level of complexity of the community and how the web of the SOS may be broad or narrow.
- Connection between engagement to University life and outcomes such as graduation rate, research porductivity, etc.
- How do these tools in form proxis (i.e., the stuff we do after the test is passed?
- How do you protect privacy and cyberstalking?
- Keeping enough protection.
- Impact of identity compromise and switch on life online.
- How can academic success job success be fostered through better networking skill & tools.
- Privacy controls. Do you have control over how much/what information a program takes from your personal data?
- How traditional tools like web of knowledge (citation indexes) can be folded into/expanded to include academic circles.
- Add your comments here
[edit] What are the learning implications of Social Operating Systems?
- Form your own learning circles; "will you be my mentor?"
- Changes every time within the classroom.
- Collabotive learning, social contribution of knowledge.
- Could brin in a greater variety of knowledge; could also limit knowledge to what is already known.
- Potentially could transform authority in the classroom.
- Students would be connected to alumni and others. A broad band of expertise. Connect all sorts of people world-wide in learning.
- Students can build their own; students can lenerage a large + familiar network to further problem solving discovery.
- Learning increase/decrease with permeable boundries.
- Students completely enabled.
- The best virtual learning environment possible.
- Connections beyond the physical.
- New ways of managing (or not).
- Collaborative learning environment, plus student interaction; privacy issues for students - level of work; assignments lack vigor.
- It could extend the "invisible college" and give it a powerful tool.
- Flexibility opportunity modularity.
- Crate communities of people - rather than siloed by subject matter.
- Add your comments here
