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Edupreneurship

Dr. Steven HornikKenneth Dixon School of Accounting

University of Central Florida

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Edupreneurship

“is the relentless pursuit of opportunity, without regard to the resources currently controlled by the educational institution, without regard to the technology currently available to educators or their students and without regard to the technology educators and students are currently comfortable using”. (Robert Bloomfield/Byers Sellers 07/28/08 The Virtual Chalkboard)

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Today’s Opportunities

Communicate with Students Collaborate with your Students Engage your Students Tools you control

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How Teaching Undergrad is changing

Less Face-to-Face More on-line

May lead to isolation Less ability to interact with Professor Less interaction with students

Larger classes (my case) Fall 2007 - 293 Spring 2008 - 194 Fall 2008 - 707

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There is No Such Thing as a “Digital Native”

I don’t use technology because Students are Used to it Students Demand/Expect it

I use technology if it supports my Pedagogy Communication is Key Engagement with topic is Key If Students can improve Learning

Outcomes

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Tools I Use Communication Tools

Instructor to Student Camtasia Studio

Creation and Delivery of online lectures Student to Instructor

Concept Map Are the students understanding the material?

Bi-Directional Meebo

Web based Instant Message Twitter

“What are you doing now” Jing

Screen capture tool Course Delivery / Learning Platform

Second Life™

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Camtasia Studio

Desktop capture utility that creates video for playback

Used for PowerPoint narration Call-outs, Zoom In and Out Full control of output

Flash, iPod, WMV, etc. Produce once, output many times

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Benefits to Online Lectures

Break up long lectures into smaller more palatable chunks

Students can listen/view when they have: Time Energy No Distractions

Students can rewind and watch over and over again.

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How often would you view one of the lectures?

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Concept Maps

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Graphical Tools Organizing & Representing Knowledge Consist of:

Concepts Circles or Boxes

Relationships between concepts Line connecting concepts

Linking words or phrases describing relationship Propositions

Two or more concepts connected using linking words

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Concept Map

Structure Hierarchically

structured More General

Concepts at the Top More Specific, less

general at the Bottom

Cross-Links Shows how different

concepts are related to each other

Learning Theories Hierarchical Structures

Places new knowledge in a framework

Progressive Differentiation As understanding

increases More concepts,

ideas (deeper) Integrative

Reconciliation Interrelationships

discovered between concepts

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Student Maps

Accrual Method of Accounting Accounts Receivable Accounting for Bonds

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Instant Messaging Before Meebo

My IM account is via Yahoo, my user name is shornik I would get a handful of IM’s throughout

a semester Students don’t have Yahoo IM Students won’t get another IM account I’d forget to turn on my IM

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Meebo

Web Based Instant Messaging

IM with any service: Yahoo, AIM, MSN,

Google Talk, Jabber ... Integrate IM into

your course web-site This was the key!

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Meebo In Action....

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Twitter - What is it?

LifeBlogging Exchanging text messages with

friends Via Web Via Phone!

What are you doing? In 140 characters

Seems exceedingly dumb.... At first Then it becomes addictive

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Twitter

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Twitter – How can you use it?

Wouldn’t it be great if our students thought about accounting ALL the time?

Have you used a classroom clicker to keep your students engaged?

Create a Twitter Account Have students follow your account

My personal account: shornik My class account: acg2021

Follow your students account Then have some fun...

Send students text messages The bank reconciliation process requires adjustments to

the bank and book balances, name the adjustments made to the bank balance. 12:10 PM February 20, 2008 from web

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Twitter - Responses

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Jing – What is it

Developed by TechSmith Developers of Camtasia and SnagIt

“The always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.”

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Jing

Examples: http://screencast.com/t/ZuajNlJV

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Second Life™Really Engaging Accounting

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Second Life™ Research Setting 3-D Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) Created by Linden Labs Is Not a game

There are no inherent goals or outcomes Social Virtual World

Your presence is represented by an Avatar how you communicate and interact with

other avatars and objects All Content of the Virtual World is created

by Residents who retain IP rights to their creations

Has a working Economy based on the Linden Dollar

Current exchange rate ~$250L to $1

Robins Hermano

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Second Life™ Statistics

14,445,712 Registered Users – July 22nd 2008

1,181,521 have logged on in last 60 days

Median Concurrency 51,406

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Second Life™ Education Stats

Educational Islands October 2006 ~ 60 July 2008 ~ 1,200

Linden Lab CEO Education is one Killer App for Virtual

Worlds 17 of 20 top US Universities have land

in Second Life™

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3-D Accounting Equation

The model allowed students to visualize how a debit or credit would increase or decrease the

different account types the impact that increase or decrease would have on the

accounting equation As students interacted with the model

they received feedback from the model (in the form of text chat)

what a particular debit or credit transaction was doing whether or not a particular transaction was balanced.

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Assignments

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Interactive T-Account

Students become game pieces Enables students to practice their

understanding of the concept of normal account balances

Feedback is provided Correct responses Incorrect responses

Wrong side Correct type Wrong type, Correct side Wrong side, Wrong type

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T-Account Data

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Student Study Groups

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Follow my Journey

http://mydebitcredit.com

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Second Life Resources

Second Life™ Educators (SLED) https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/

mailman/listinfo/educators SLED Blog

http://www.sl-educationblog.org/ New Media Consortium

http://sl.nmc.org/ SimTeach Wiki

http://www.simteach.com/

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Value 1 2 3 4 5Screencast Lectures 94 28 2 1 2Cmaps 31 71 10 4 11Meebo 1 11 31 54 30SecondLife 1 11 48 28 39Twitter 6 36 40 45Total Responses: 127

Value 1 2 3 4 5Screencast Lectures 75 19 9 1Cmaps 19 44 32 4 5SecondLife 9 34 40 10 11Meebo 1 5 14 47 37Twitter 2 9 42 51Total Responses: 104

Fall 2007

Spring 2008

Student Rank of Most Useful Tools

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Be an Edupreneur!

Questions?