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  • Cases for Iphone 4 (Posted By: RobertPattinson on September 11
  • Wow!This is great and i am up for it. (Posted By: Fleare on October 7
  • This course has now been run five times, see http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2010 for most recent course (Posted By: Peter A. Gloor on August 24
  • yeah, ie. online sharing what AbouT actual file sharing, like sound and video production, why note stream for this in virtual time zone (Posted By: lee wangdi on June 23
  • Dont seem to see any suggestion that a pilot effort has taken place? What will be required to convert the COIN program from a good idea to practical use? We must take this from concept to completion. (Posted By: TheRealSaint on June 13
  • I like the ideas behind this activity. I'd like to know more about the ideas of 'coolhunting' and 'coolfarming'. Could you elaborate please? (Posted By: Lizzie Crudgington on August 22

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COINS (Collaborative Innovation Networks)

Description

This course on COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks), asks students from geographically distributed locations who have never met face to face to form virtual interdisciplinary teams collaborating on a common task, the communication analysis of online communities. As part of their task they correlate individual and team performance of the community they are analyzing with individual and team social network structure. While collaborating over long distance, students also keep track of their own communication activities, thus optimizing their own communication behavior.

Time Required: one semester

 

Learning Objectives

students will acquire virtual collaboration and communication skills crucial for the 21st century global workforce.
They will also improve their own communication behavior

Teaching Process

1. Learn about swarm creativity, Collaborative Innovation Networks, social network analysis, coolhunting, and coolfarming.
2. Form a virtual team (a COIN) with students in other locations, and establish a system to record your own interactions in Step 3, for evaluation in Step 4.
3. Coolhunt together with other members of your COIN in an online community of your choice. While coolhunting, record your own interactions for later evaluation in Step 4.
4. After completing Step 3, analyze and measure the collected interactions within your team, looking at the flow of knowledge within the team and the roles of team members.
5. Optimize your own role in your social network so you can become a coolfarmer within your network. Apply these lessons to coolfarm the online community analyzed in step 3.

Teaching Notes

course has been taught on College level, but will be piloted soon also on K 9-12 level

Assessment/Evaluation

the course is based on peer evaluation, course members evaluating the outcome of the other teams' virtual presentations.

 

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