The document discusses using IBM Connections to enhance university courses. It describes using Connections for system integration and knowledge management courses to allow for collaborative learning through shared files, wikis, and forums. This continuous sharing and updating of content year after year aims to engage students more and improve learning outcomes compared to traditional teaching methods. The presentation concludes that Connections is not meant to replace learning management systems but can effectively support sharing to facilitate touch and learning even for digital natives.

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Using IBM Connections to
Enhance Univertisty Courses
Jan Valdman, Whitesoft
@jan_valdman

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About me
Jan Valdman
jan.valdman@whitesoft.eu
+420 603 590 152

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Section 1

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System integration course
• Enterprise topics
• Technical and non-technical
• Strategic management, integration patters,
ITIL, SOA, EA, BPM, ETC, portals, BI,
socbiz, XaaS, security, …

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Knowledge management course
• What is knowledge
• Explicit and tacit knowledge
• Transferring knowledge (SECI
• Information architecture
• Knowledge management, social networks

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Teaching as a topic
• How we learn?
• How to teach?

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Teaching methods
• Pedagogy (I teach you)
• Andragogy (theory +
practice, facilitation, self-
determined, autonomous)
• Heutagogy (self-learning,
no teachers, no
institutions)

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The issues
• Practical activities
• Disengaged students
• “poor” results at state exams
• “see – do – understand – explain”

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Courseware
My portal project in 2006

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Let us use IBM Connections
• Collaborative learning
• Long term knowledge repository (digital
library, “digital portfolios”)
• Team work
• “Continuous touch”

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One community approach
• Cumulate content
• Year after year

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Files
• Sharing lectures (slides)
• Sharing additional stuff

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Wikis
• Vocabulary
• Wiki-pedia
• Students team research
• Updates year after year

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Forums
• No mail policy
• Set public learning goals
• Q&A

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Lessons learned
• Connections is not a LMS/CMS or “e-
learning” system
• Sharing is touch even for young people
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Thank You!
Jan Valdman
jan.valdman@whitesoft.eu
+420 603 590 152

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