GlobalHUB - A Online Community for Advancing Global Engineering
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| Category | Online Presentations |
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| Abstract | GlobalHUB.org, initiated by a grant from the National Science Foundation, is the first virtual organization dedicated to global engineering education and research. GlobalHUB and other cybercommunities are emerging as a result of the "grand convergence" of several trends: (i) maturation of the Internet; (ii) emergence of Web 2.0 technologies; and (iii) explosion of user-generated content. This presentation is part of a workshop on GlobalHUB given at the 12th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education, Ames , Iowa, on October 22nd, 2009. The first part of the workshop will cover GlobalHUB's vision and goals, the different components we built into it, and the underlying infrastructure. In the second part, we will demonstrate GlobalHUB features such as accessing and finding content in GlobalHUB, uploading resources, rating and tagging, group creation and use for collaboration, running simulation tools, and tool development. Finally, and most importantly we will obtain user feedback, in particular including suggestions for: improving GlobalHUB to better serve the needs of the global engineering community; engaging the community in the continuous development of GlobalHUB; defining the role of online communities in global engineering and how globalHUB can support it, and finally sustainability of the community. The video shows the evolution of GlobalHUB in terms of users. |
| Contributor | Mourad Ouzzani
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| Sponsored By | NSF EEC- 0742753 |
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