This document summarizes a pilot program at the University of Oklahoma that provides students and faculty with digital tools and platforms to create online presences. It includes statistics on participation in the program such as over 850 active users and nearly 8,000 blog posts. It also outlines potential use cases for the digital tools such as personal blogging, study abroad experiences, course hubs, research teams, and wikis. The goal of the program is to empower users to control their own learning and rethink content creation and dissemination in an organic way.

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A Domain
Pilot at the
University of
Oklahoma
Adam Croom
University of Oklahoma
@acroom
DML 2015

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Being present inside the web
DIGITAL PRESENCE

5. GOOD FOR RECREATING PHYSICAL CLASSROOM

6. EQUIVALENT TO READING ONLINE NEWSPAPER

7. RETHINKING CONTENT CREATION AND DISSEMINATION

8. FULL CONTROL OF YOUR LEARNING

9. Aiming for organic pilot growth
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10. Aiming to not limit one’s possibility
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11. Giving permission to simply play
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12. Active Users: 853
Active Sites: 1051
Total Blog Posts: 7,869

13. Student, 731, 61%Faculty, 219,
18%
Staff, 253, 21%
Users by Status

14. Engineering, 27, 4%
Arts & Sciences,
117, 16%
Fine Arts, 21, 3%
Journalism & Mass
Communication,
155, 21%
Academi
c Affairs,
24, 3%
Atmospheric &
Geographic Science,
10, 1%Business, 28, 4%
International
Studies, 12, 2%
University College,
305, 42%
Education, 13, 2% Other, 17, 2%
Students by College

15. Journalism & Mass
Communication, 9, 9%
Earth & Energy, 6, 6%
Atmospheric &
Geographic Science, 4,
4%
Arts & Sciences, 33,
34%
Education, 22, 23%
Engineering, 13, 14%
Other, 10, 10%
Faculty by College

16. Weitzenhoffer Col of
Fine Arts, 10, 5%
Jeannine Rainbolt
Coll of Educ, 8, 4%
College of Arts and
Sciences, 32, 16%
University College,
42, 21%
Gaylord College of
JMC, 69, 34%
College of
Engineering, 13, 6%
Price College of
Business, 7, 4%
Academic Affairs, 8,
4%
Other, 11, 6%
Staff by College

17. OU Create Use Cases

18. PERSONAL
BLOGGING

27. STUDY ABROAD

31. COURSE HUBS

39. RESEARCH TEAMS

44. WIKIS

49. STUDENT CAMPAIGNS

51. PROTOTYPES

54. FACULTY LEARNING
COMMUNITIES

60. Not-yetness is not satisfying every condition, not fully
understanding something, not check-listing everything, not
tidying everything, not trying to solve every problem…but
creating space for emergence to take us to new and
unpredictable places, to help us better understand the
problems we are trying to solve
Amy Collier, redpincushion.me

61. In many ways, helping teachers and learners set
up personal cyberinfrastructures is very not-yet. You are not
defining what the end result will be. It can be complex and
messy. Things may not go the way you think they could or
should. You are asking teachers and learners to decide what they
want the technology to do for them. You are helping them break
free from templates and course creation wizards
Amy Collier, redpincushion.me