A new Social Computing module is in development
Written by: Jonathan Briggs
September 17, 2009 [660 views]
In February 2010 I will be involved with the launch of a new module in Social Computing for the final year of our degree. Computers and IT are becoming ever more collaborative or social and this module will help students prepare for working in this environment.
We have not finalised the lectures, workshops or activities yet but we want to cover a wide range of topics including:
- Web 2.0 and changing user expectations
- Reputation and social markets
- Open source and the creative commons
- Crowd sourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds
- Managing social computing projects
- SOA and mashups
- The Cloud
- Social networks and microblogging
- Incremental design and business models (design, private beta, public beta, release, optimise)
- Changing organisations through social computing
- Social, legal and ethical issues in social computing
- Mobile and location based social
I'll publish a full description of what we are proposing later in the Autumn. If you have ideas or suggestions please add you comments below.
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On October 12, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Liis wrote:
I would like to take this module but it does not appear on any of the available modules to take next semester. Is this because it is such a new one and we have to wait until next semester to be able to choose it?
Thanks
Jonathan replies: We will publicise it later this semester.