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Rizwan Ansary Assignment # 18 1. what did you find 1.1. interesting about the article? The article makes an interesting reading because it discusses and mentions many themes that have come up in our course; EDC, DODEs, knowledgement and SER model to name a few. The examples that related to CU (e.g. TAM program) also provide a familiar context rather than an abstract context that unrelated examples are sometimes guilty of providing. 1.2. not interesting about the article? Nothing. 2. what do you consider the main message of the article? The current perspective on knowledgement needs improvement. It involves too few actors. Through collaboration we can engage more people to contribute and also to suggest new and efficient ways of disseminating knowledge. 3. there is a section in the article ?courses-as-seeds? analyzing an earlier course from a KM perspective. Please analyze briefly our course in a similar fashion against the framework and claims made in the article. I think our course is very similar to the example discussed in the section. However, in the TAM course, Dynasites developers eventually sat down with course participants to carry out the reseeding process and improve on the organization of "nuggets" in the information space. That activity has not happened and I believe it can strongly improve the information space in our course's swiki. 4. analyze the 4.1. strength and The biggest strength in my opinion is the collaborative nature of swiki. The ease with which people can post their contributins and also look at those of the others makes learning through collaboration convenient. 4.2. weakness of the Swiki as a computational environment to support KM. In te beginning, I always had difficulty finding stuff in swiki. Also, there are still times when I feel that the location of some things is not intuitive. This is best demonstrated when everyone's intuition leads them to post material at different places. The file uploads also gave a problem. However, one inherent weakness of swiki during this course (even if someone can organize all the stuff with perfect intuition and solve the upload problem) has been that the discussion forum was hardly ever used. This might have to do with the fact that the course was designed to encourage participation in class and students rarely felt the need to start a discussion outside class. |
