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><h2> Objectives </h2> <p>This page has been created for three reasons to facilitate a discussion at the <a href="http://business.mtroyal.ca/&quot;>Bissett School of Business</a> Brown Bag Lunch: </p> <blockquote> <ul><li> To introduce you to the Shared Experience Project </li><li> To get your feedback </li><li> To welcome your participation </li></ul> </blockquote>

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[edit] Key messages

1. Open and collaborative approaches make business education stronger, more scalable and more sustainable
   
2. Learners want it
3. We can make it happen

[edit] Context

[edit] An irony

Thanks in large part to younger workers, more and more organizations today are using collaborative networking tools to boost collaboration and foster innovation and growth. Despite this, the phenomenon has not yet enjoyed mainstream adoption in the realm of business education, either as a topic or as a teaching method.

[edit] Open learning and collaborative teaching

Readers not familiar with the use of collaborative platforms in the field of education are urged to visit the web sites of:

• Wikiversity
• Connexions
• MIT Open Courseware
• Apple iTunes U

And to watch the introductory video presented by Richard Baraniuk in 2006 at the Technology Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference.

[edit] Some relevant literature

You may also wish to consult the following sources:

• Literature on open educational resources and practices

[edit] The Shared Experience Project

The Shared Experience Project (Shex) was born over a coffee one morning in mid-2007. Here's the deal:

[edit] What is it?

Shex is a platform for collaborative teaching, open learning and through which business people, teachers and students can share their experience.

Read our introduction for more.

[edit] How is it different?

We like to say that it offers the collaborative culture of Wikipedia, the openness of Connexions, and an accessible, teaching and learning framework like no platform before it. It is different from previous platforms because of its focus on teaching and learning, because of its specific focus on entrepreneurship and innovation, and because it uses the same widely-accepted and technologically-mature web-based wiki engine as Wikipedia.

Information + Understanding

[edit] Stop talking and let me see it!

The following are some examples of how this approach has been used in the classroom. Feel free to have a browse.

[edit] In the classroom

[edit] Teacher to student

• A junior-level course: Business Statistics 1 (MGMT 2262)
  • Sample topic: More on Probability
• A senior-level course: Strategic Entrepreneurship (ENTR 4435)
  • Sample topics: Vision and Mission, Introduction to Creativity and Innovation
• Experiential learning: The Bissett eBay Challenge (ENTR 2201)

[edit] Student to teacher

• Collaborative quiz (each question answered by 5-6 students, ENTR 4435)

[edit] Student to student

• Ask me to see this one (for confidentiality reasons)

[edit] Other

• Course and topic list

• Teacher to teacher
• School to broader audience
• Student to client

[edit] Within the teaching organization

• Entrepreneurship program development
• General Education course development
• Monitoring the academic literature in entrepreneurship

[edit] What's been the response?

[edit] Student response

Comments?

What is your primary source of learning?

How to you use each source for the following activities?

If you had to choose between a free textbook and Shex.org?

Do you recommend the textbook to future students?

What if the textbook was half price?

[edit] Institutional Response

• Interest among colleagues
• Interest at ADC
• Support for research in this area at MRC
  

[edit] Broader response

• e.g. Media: CityTV.

[edit] Your feedback and ideas

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