Kyle Mathews :: Dreams With In

1. Schools exist to prepare students to thrive in the environment where they live.
2. The environment we live in has changed significantly in the past fifty years from a mechanistic to an electronic world.

University learning is centered on the course. A pattern for learning familiar to any current or past student. Students and teacher meet 1-3 times per week for 8-12 weeks. There's lectures, readings, papers, projects, quizzes, and tests.

This, by and large, is an adequate pattern for many learning purposes. But no rational person would suggest this is the only workable solution or even what's best, or adequate, for all purposes.

I had the amazing opportunity to present this past March at Drupalcon DC 2009 on my research and work on https://island.byu.edu

Video from Ignite SLC 2 was posted earlier this week. You can watch all the videos at the Ignite SLC website. I've embedded below the video of my presentation on building social networks at universities.

This is the second in a series of articles I'm writing to help me prep for my session next week at Drupalcon. The first article was my attempt to define social objects. This article outlines how to use social object theory to design better social networking sites.