Build a Social Campus with Social Collaboration Software

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Build a Social Campus with Social Collaboration
Software

• Connect Campus, Businesses and Community

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DELIVER A SOCIAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE

• Build a social campus to help fulfill the
  academic mission and expand the learning
  environment exponentially.
• Enable campus communities to mix connections
  among serious, working scholars with the
  creativity of social media environments.

• Social collaboration software weaves
• together widespread academic communities.

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BRING THE GLOBAL CAMPUS TOGETHER

• Social networking software reflects the digital
  culture that shapes current ways of connecting
  and learning.
• Faculty, students, and staff join experts within
  and outside the campus, share resources and seek
  information.
• Tools include blogs, focus groups, academic
  discussions, activity streams, forums, mail,
  online chat, documentation storage, video, photo
  and audio sharing and more.

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TRANSFORM THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

• Gaming mechanics employ familiar ways of
  interacting to encourage user participation.
• Users can be acknowledged with recognition,
  access to levels of achievement, reward badges,
  certificates, or even coupons where appropriate
  (local pizza vendors are often willing
  participants).

• Community members build a database by
  contributing
• profiles that are quickly accessed and searched
  by users.

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RELY ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS that arePRIVATE AND
SECURE

• The social platform is private and secure,
  avoiding the risks of the open source environment
  that plague other forms of social media.
• Students have access to faculty and other
  experts, increasing personal contact and learning
  opportunities.
• The best social platforms for higher education
  safely transform divergent campus communities
  into private social networks that the institution
  manages and controls.

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SOCIAL IS AT THE CORE OF THE EDUCATIONAL
ENTERPRISE

• Faculty can adapt blogs for continuous updates to
  course assignments, accept student work, or
  conduct seminars.
• Students engage and network together in a
  completely new kind of open learning process.
• Students exchange files in peer-to-peer networks
  or dialog with faculty.

• Social platforms designed for colleges and
  universities
• build new connections.

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BUILD CORE COMPETENCIES

• Students develop core competencies needed to
  learn, work and interact socially in the online
  environment of the future.
• The focus of learning shifts from private,
  individually gained knowledge and skills to
  building community-based knowledge and complex
  competencies.
• A collaborative space opens for work on the same
  assignment or task, just one way the learning
  process is becoming more visible to others.

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BUILD THE PLATFORM

• Once a system for social collaboration is
  established, modules can be added at no cost,
  inviting participation from other institutions
  and accessing a global community.
• Students can use blogs to create wikis or online
  dictionaries, and to share photos.
• The academic institution can build flexible
  online learning courses as the social platform
  continues to evolve.

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MANAGE LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Social collaboration platforms offer easy
  implementation and minimal staff hours for
  administrative upkeep.
• Sub-communities have more opportunities to
  exchange information and build stronger networks.
• The open interchange creates a dynamic
  environment that leads to unexpected discovery.

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HiveSocialTM for Higher Education by Enterprise
Hive transforms the educational institution into
a social campus by easily connecting all its
constituents, using embedded gaming mechanics and
more.