Comments on: Call for Participants in NSF Proposal to Integrate Social Media in Undergraduate Education

By: Outline from my talk on Lessons from Game Design for the Classroom « The Number Warrior

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:05:17 +0000

[...] More substantive examples: socialPsych [...]

By: Gamify My Historian’s Craft | Play The Past

Gamify My Historian’s Craft | Play The Past — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:59:58 +0000

[...] tools, techniques, and approaches from a single class? As I was preparing the course, I came across this post by Richard Landers who teaches a social psychology course at Old Dominion University. Richard was [...]

By: Richard N. Landers

Richard N. Landers — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:39:54 +0000

Your department/institution can certainly participate! As far as I know, NSF only has restrictions on where the funds go – your institution can reap the benefits of the project regardless. If you’re interested, please contact me – rnlanders@odu.edu

We definitely do NOT want to use Facebook. Part of the resistance to this system that I hear from administration is that they do not want student data floating freely out on the Internet, outside of institutional control. So that is not an option if we want adoption at even a moderate rate.

Elgg, however, is an option that we have considered – we may be able to use elgg as a base and create custom functionality to move from there. That will depend somewhat on our programming team, however (which is still not quite nailed down yet). If we decide that’s a realistic option, I will probably also reach out to the elgg developer base… not sure if they’d be receptive to such a plan or not.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:32:07 +0000

Instead of building from scratch, what about app development for something like Facebook or Elgg? Might be quicker, reach more students, etc? Anyway, I’m at a Canadian university, and so probably not elgible for inclusion in an NSF, so I wish you the best of luck and look forward to hearing more about your experiments in the future!

By: Gamifying Homework - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Gamifying Homework - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:01:33 +0000

[...] He has built a social network for psychology students, using some basic gamification principles to get students to engage with the material and to mentor one another. He notes, with some surprise, that students took quickly to this: Across those 400 students, 113 [...]

By: Richard N. Landers

Richard N. Landers — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:02:19 +0000

That’s great – thanks George. We’ve got about 5 departments interested so far, but I am hoping to grow that number much larger.

By: GEORGE A GUAJARDO

GEORGE A GUAJARDO — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:09:26 +0000

I passed this on to my network. Best of luck!