Virtual Work Syllabi

Virtual Work Syllabi and Teaching Materials

Please add links to any syllabi for virtual work courses that you teach, or syllabi for other courses that you teach that have a virtual work component.

If you teach a topic that fits within the virtual work theme, or do not teach a topic but think it should be taught in a core virtual work course, feel free to list it on this page and/or add a new internal link to a page where that topic could be explored in detail.

Syllabi

  • Astrid Lipp teaches an undergraduate course entitled Using Technology for Personal Effectiveness and Collaboration which includes a variety of topics related to virtual work, including collaboration, blogs, and communities. See external link: AstridLippSyllabus.htm.
  • Jerry Kane teaches an Intro to IS course that has interesting pieces on crowdsourcing and other Web 2.0 topics ; syllabus online at external link: http://www.socialtext.net/cim .
  • Ann Majchzrak suggests developing a course called Virtual Collaboration, with a significant segment on mass collaboration based on books by Tapscott "Wikinomics" and Mulholland "Mashup Corporations", focused on the following techniques: value network analysis, mashups, wikis, website development with RSS feeds, and social tagging.

Teaching Materials

  • Katherine Stewart has posted a PPT file that outlines a segment from her MBA-level systems analysis elective on open source, which includes some material on the collaboration aspect: external link: Katherine Stewart OpenSource slides

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