[Air-L] teaching with current social network sysems?!

Murray Turoff murray.turoff at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 17:26:53 PDT 2010


If you are teaching a course on social networks it is quite proper to ask
small groups of students to investigate different social network systems
based upon some sort of guidance on what to look for to evaluate the
system.   however, when their exists a whole set of course ware systems with
better functionality for the course process such a moodle i am unclear why
one would want to teach using any of the social network systems.  Even a
bulletin board system like WebBoard would be better to offer a class then
all the social network systems i have seen.

If you want a good student project to get students to be aware of problems
on the web,   set up trials of different online sellers and then get some
students use accounts that have cookies from very cheap places like walmarts
and other students to use accounts with cookies from places like niemen
markus and what they will discover they will get different prices from the
same sellers depending on the cookies they or you have.  This is not illegal
and was verified by some tests a few years back done out one of a business
school in a professors class.  It pays to clean up your cookies.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Information Systems, NJIT
homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff



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