The philosophy and thinking behind the ground breaking social media site - community.mis.temple.edu - of the Department of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Learn more at: http://community.mis.temple.edu/technology/about-this-site/

1. RE-IMAGINING THE ROLE OF
TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA

2. MOOCs
Credentialing
Online
Student
lifeworld
Education
challenges
Hierarchical
Rule-based
Sequential
Siloed

3. TEACH
ENGAGE
COLLEGE AND MAJOR
LEARN
DEVELOP
OUR FOCUS: THE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
MOBILE

4. NETWORK
COLLABORATE
SOCIAL
SPONTANEOUS
GRADUATION AND PLACEMENT
OUR FOCUS: THE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

5. Enable connections and communities
inside and outside the boundaries.
Relationships, serendipity, and the
vigorous debate, generation, and
exchange of ideas
THE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

6. THE COMMUNITY PLATFORM
COMMUNITY PLATFORM
-
Website
Courses
Professional development and placement
Student and alumni engagement
Educate
Recruit
Place
Admit
Teach
Develop
KEY TOOLS
-
Points
Badges
E-portfolios
Open
Individual control
Discovery and aggregation
Engage

7. THE FOX MIS COMMUNITY - OVERVIEW
Top 3 in
Google
searches on
MIS
5500+
members
30,000-35,000
hits/month
(55% are new)
4300+ sites
1100+ eportfolios
250+ courses
13,924 posts
and 35,956
comments

8. THE FOX MIS COMMUNITY - OVERVIEW
Demonstration

9. HOME PAGE – TOP
•Brochures
•News

10. HOME PAGE - MIDDLE
Discover others
Feature top
students
Aggregation
Courses

11. HOME PAGE - BOTTOM
Discover others
Professional
achievement
points

12. COURSES
“Syllabus”
Interaction

13. FACULTY
Discovery and
aggregation
Individual
control

14. STUDENTS

15. DISCOVERY AND AGGREGARTION
Discover others
Aggregation

16. RESEARCH
Professional development
Teaching

17. CONTINOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

18. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
AFTER
Student
BEFORE
Faculty
Employer
Employer
Faculty/
Department
Student
Student
Career
Services
Employer
Student
Career
Services
Employer

19. CONTINOUS DEVELOPMENT MODEL
Juniors
Approved eportfolios
Seniors
66%
78%
Cumulative
documents per eportfolio
(posts/pages/attach
ment)
28
29
Cumulative
revisions per eportfolio
Page views per eportfolio/year
75
68
1132
715
720
523
Unique visitors per
e-portfolio/year
Compare to:
• Starting a resume at
the last minute
• Single page resumes
• Rarely updated
• Seen by few

20. CHANGING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Traditional
development
• Text only
• Can be hard to
find
• Isolated
• Sequential
• Limited
exposure
• Forced
Continuous
development
• Multimedia
• Permanent URL
• Pushed to
Google
• Individual
control of
digital identity
• Visible
• Frequent
updates

21. COURSE CO-CREATION
Posts
“Syllabus”

22. COURSES
AFTER
BEFORE
Course 1
Expert
Course 1
Expert
Student
Student
Faculty
Faculty
Student
Student
Expert
Expert
Student
Student
Faculty
Faculty
Student
Student
Course 2
Course 2

23. CO-CREATION MODEL
Course T - 2012
(traditional)
Students
Total posts
Student posts
% Student
posts
49
89
NA
NA
Course C1 –
2012
(co-created)
33
103
12
12%
Course C2 2013
(co-created)
35
164
68
41%
Student
comments
Average
comments per
student
434
397
427
8.9
12.0
12.1

24. CHANGING COURSES
Traditional
course
• Closed
• Only prepackaged
content
• Stylized
interaction
• Only
instructor
content
Co-created
course
• Ideas and
content from
others
• Free-flowing
interaction
• Content
ownership
• Outside
visibility

25. CAN EDUCATION RESPOND?
Leverage strengths
and minimize
vulnerabilities
Competitive
advantage
The
Community
Experience

26. TEACH
ENGAGE
LEARN
COLLABORATE
NETWORK
SOCIAL
SPONTANEOUS
DEVELOP
COLLEGE AND MAJOR
MOBILE
THE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
GRADUATION AND PLACEMENT

27. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NEWS
• Mandviwalla, M. and Schuff, D (forthcoming). Reimagining the Higher Education Experience as a Socially-Enabled Complex
Adaptive System. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 5-9, 2014.
• Mandviwalla, N. and Schuff, D. Reimagining higher education as a complex adaptive system. 1st Annual Complex Adaptive
Systems Symposium, University of Texas, Austin, October 11-12, 2013.
• Key, Peter. Badges, We, uh, maybe we do need badges after all. Philadelphia Business Journal, July 26, 2013.
http://t.co/xWkVaFb0QT. (feature about the professional development points, leaderboard, and badges)
• Mandviwalla, M., Schuff, D., Chacko, M. and Miller, L. (forthcoming). Is That All There Is? Taking Education to New Levels in the
Social Media Era. Forthcoming in: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, September 2013.
http://www.changemag.org/index.html
• D. Schuff and M. Mandviwalla. Social Education and the Fox MIS Community Site. EDUCAUSE 2012, Denver, November 8, 2012.
• David Schuff and Munir Mandviwalla. Making Education Social: The FoxMIS Community Site., Campus Technology Forum, July
16-19, 2012, Boston.
• M. Mandviwalla. Social Media Strategic Framework. Society for Information Management, Advanced Practices Council, May 8,
2012, Chicago, USA.
• Munir Mandviwalla. Keynote address: Social Media Strategy, Magic Hour Users Conference, Philadelphia, April 30, 2012.
• D. Schuff and M. Mandviwalla. Making Education Social: The FoxMIS Community Site. Campus Technology Forum, Los Angeles,
May 1, 2012. (video)
• Temple Business Students Hope E-Portfolio Gives Them An Advantage In Job Hunt. CBS News, February 23, 2012. (feature about
e-portfolios)
• Munir Mandviwalla. Strategic Framework for Managing the Social Media Portfolio. Society for Information Management Philadelphia, Seminar speaker, Feb 7, 2012, Philadelphia, USA.
• Munir Mandviwalla (moderator), Steven Johnson, Paul Pavlou, and Sunil Wattal. The good, the bad, and the ugly of social
media.” Temple University TV Community Forum, televised forum on social media, November 14, 2011. (video)
• Temple Fox MIS. Showcased on http://wordpress.org/showcase/temple-fox-mis/. One of about 200 sites chosen to be
showcased at WordPress.org (there are 68 million WordPress sites). June, 2010.
• Munir Mandviwalla. Keynote speaker: Re-imagining the role of technology in higher education. WordCamp Philly, Philadelphia,
PA. October 30, 2010. (video recording, slides, more than 4300 views on SlideShare)

28. CONTACT US
We are looking for partners to share our platform and
collaborate. If you are interested, please contact Munir
Mandviwalla at mandviwa@temple.edu
PROJECT TEAM
Munir Mandviwalla
Manoj Chacko
Laurel Miller