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Weekly topics ran from metaphors for online groups through bringing newcomers on board, building commitment, encouraging contribution, regulating behavior and coordination, to starting a new community, with a term project presented midway.", "description_source": "syllabus", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ts-ac1FJGjePrEzAjqy8bofg4YFXEb_c", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "COMP SUPPRT COOP WRK" }, { "id": "cmu-90-915-spring-2008", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Spring 2008", "term_sort": 20081, "code": "90-915", "title": "Fundamentals of Social Network Methodology", "subject": "social-networks", "kind": "course", "instructor": "David Krackhardt", "instructor_source": "syllabus", "description": "A PhD seminar on the core methods of social network analysis using UCINET and Wasserman and Faust. Topics began with graph theory and matrix algebra and moved through power and centrality and related measures, with weekly data homework done in small groups and presented in class.", "description_source": "syllabus", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rQCMv4wmLmaotECq54ws8aSQ-RjWirwP", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "FUND SOC NTWRK MTHDS" }, { "id": "cmu-47-954-spring-2008", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Spring 2008", "term_sort": 20081, "code": "47-954", "title": "Doctoral Seminar in Information Systems IV", "subject": "infosys", "kind": "course", "instructor": "Pei-yu Chen", "instructor_source": "syllabus", "description": "A seminar on the economics of information, networks and technology, using economic theory to study how information and technology shape organizations and markets. Students wrote short memos before most classes, led part of a discussion, and finished with a survey or research paper.", "description_source": "syllabus", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CfwhWRv_YrqN6D_fFtEjFYQnu01VcYmr", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "SEM INFO SYSTEMS IV" }, { "id": "cmu-47-953-spring-2008", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Spring 2008", "term_sort": 20081, "code": "47-953", "title": "Seminar in Information Systems III", "subject": "infosys", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "A doctoral information systems seminar with weekly readings and a research project. Ben's project studied group influences in peer-to-peer lending markets, using the borrower and lender groups on Prosper as the research setting.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M1Huvryt3lEDNP2JeOUJlH50OQo2GKNV", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "SEM INFO SYSTEMS III" }, { "id": "cmu-47-894-spring-2008", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Spring 2008", "term_sort": 20081, "code": "47-894", "title": "Research Methods for Behavioral Science", "subject": "research", "kind": "course", "instructor": "Paul S. Goodman", "instructor_source": "course memo", "description": "A hands-on methods course for organizational behavior. The folder holds interview transcripts and critiques from paired interview projects, an observation exercise, and a reading list running from mediators and moderators to writing survey questions and assessing reliability.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EnUKElmmRYpOmL7PJtIns4KQnwHAcWEF", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "RSCH MTHDS / BEH SCI" }, { "id": "cmu-47-891-spring-2008", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Spring 2008", "term_sort": 20081, "code": "47-891", "title": "Seminar in Organizational Theory II", "subject": "org-behavior", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "The spring research seminar for first-year OB doctoral students, built around guest faculty talking about their own research and careers. Recurring themes were hard work and luck, learning from setbacks, what makes a good doctoral student, and how good researchers innovate on methods as well as theory.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JBwPfxZZBz6mfhEqh-kdiVZSVlRdL1Fo", "materials_note": "My folder calls this class OB Research II, and my reflection paper is dated May 2008, the only spring OB seminar on the transcript.", "transcript_title": "SMNR ORGNZTL THRY II" }, { "id": "pitt-pt733-fall-2007", "degree": "ms", "school": "pitt", "term": "Fall 2007", "term_sort": 20073, "code": "PT733", "title": "Foundations of Organizational Behavior", "subject": "org-behavior", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "Taken at the University of Pittsburgh through cross-registration. A doctoral foundations course in organizational behavior, covering how individuals and groups think, feel and act at work, and the research traditions behind those ideas.", "description_source": "general", "materials_url": "", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "FND ORGNZL BEHVR" }, { "id": "pitt-pt731-fall-2007", "degree": "ms", "school": "pitt", "term": "Fall 2007", "term_sort": 20073, "code": "PT731", "title": "Knowledge Management Systems (BMIS 3021)", "subject": "infosys", "kind": "course", "instructor": "William King", "instructor_source": "syllabus", "description": "Taken at Pitt's Katz Graduate School through cross-registration. A seminar on knowledge management and organizational learning, from tacit knowledge and exploration versus exploitation to knowledge management systems. Students wrote a research proposal and an essay on a debate in the field.", "description_source": "syllabus", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/175dlhA_c0RS7Uhm9CQ8-2rmQqHO5FZ74", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "KNOWLEDGE MANGMT" }, { "id": "cmu-47-952-fall-2007", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Fall 2007", "term_sort": 20073, "code": "47-952", "title": "Doctoral Seminar in Information Systems II", "subject": "infosys", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "A doctoral information systems seminar built on paper summary reports and a final paper. Ben's summaries covered open innovation, the long tail, information transparency in B2B markets, and organizational architecture in IT, and his final paper looked at how editors become administrators of Wikipedia.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vsoa9FCs3IUa82_ggLNGA5H8mZxO51N7", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "DOC SEM INFO SYS II" }, { "id": "cmu-47-951-fall-2007", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Fall 2007", "term_sort": 20073, "code": "47-951", "title": "Seminar in Information Systems I", "subject": "infosys", "kind": "course", "instructor": "Tridas Mukhopadhyay", "instructor_source": "syllabus", "description": "The first doctoral IS seminar, organized around two questions: what is IS research, and how do we do it? It teaches by example and by doing, with weekly readings drawn largely from the instructor's own work on the business value of information technology.", "description_source": "syllabus", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KzKNqsgSYtlKcqUJD1FpfIqo-4glXmIV", "materials_note": "", "transcript_title": "SEM INFO SYSTMS I" }, { "id": "cmu-47-892-fall-2007", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Fall 2007", "term_sort": 20073, "code": "47-892", "title": "Seminar in Organizational Behavior (Macro)", "subject": "org-behavior", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "The macro side of the first-year doctoral seminar, focused on organization theory. It started with what makes a good theory, then covered population ecology and organizational learning, with written reviews of assigned papers. My final paper and talk looked at routines and knowledge transfer in open source software projects.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MSkC4f58udpDDWk9Cw-Q7OIzCiWIJxwq", "materials_note": "Both Fall 2007 seminars carry the same title on the transcript. My papers show one was micro and one macro, but not which course number was which.", "transcript_title": "SMNR ORGNZTL BHAVIOR" }, { "id": "cmu-47-890-fall-2007", "degree": "ms", "school": "cmu", "term": "Fall 2007", "term_sort": 20073, "code": "47-890", "title": "Seminar in Organizational Behavior (Micro)", "subject": "org-behavior", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "The micro side of the first-year doctoral seminar in organizational behavior. It opened by asking what OB is and how the field has changed, then worked through weekly readings on how people think and act at work. My papers were a critical review of research on identity and attachment at work, and a final paper and talk on role theory and role transitions.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bvrgJEHqqb6rD7WAfncnn7CWr9a0ZWin", "materials_note": "Both Fall 2007 seminars carry the same title on the transcript. My papers show one was micro and one macro, but not which course number was which.", "transcript_title": "SMNR ORGNZTL BHAVIOR" }, { "id": "uwm-psych-710-spring-2007", "degree": "mba", "school": "uwm", "term": "Spring 2007", "term_sort": 20071, "code": "PSYCH 710", "title": "Design and Analysis of Psychological Experiments", "subject": "statistics", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "A graduate statistics course on designing experiments and analyzing their results, covering analysis of variance, factorial designs and related methods, with weekly homework, computer labs in SPSS and exams.", "description_source": "general", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1waRm-BRgC1eOAuKjYyOEg8uN1p62Up9t", "materials_note": "The Drive folder is named Ed Psych 710.", "transcript_title": "Dsgn&Anal-Psych Experiments" }, { "id": "uwm-ed-psych-862-spring-2007", "degree": "mba", "school": "uwm", "term": "Spring 2007", "term_sort": 20071, "code": "ED PSYCH 862", "title": "Multivariate Analysis", "subject": "statistics", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "Statistical tests framed as model comparisons, from regression and ANCOVA through multiple predictors, partial correlation and dummy coding, then matrix algebra, multivariate multiple regression, canonical correlation, MANOVA and discriminant functions. The course ran with two midterms and SPSS exercises.", "description_source": "syllabus", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w_ZTPmYSBRos8E7uebYCl4G8w94OjGoR", "materials_note": "The syllabus in the folder is a 2005 version of the same course.", "transcript_title": "Multivariate Analysis" }, { "id": "uwm-otm-799-spring-2007", "degree": "mba", "school": "uwm", "term": "Spring 2007", "term_sort": 20071, "code": "OTM 799", "title": "Reading and Research: Operations and Information Management", "subject": "research", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "Independent reading and research. This term's folder holds successive drafts of a paper on group efficacy and trust in virtual teams, prepared for the AMCIS conference, with research models and notes.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wXtIJ1JkrkjkFl9ef95PsfhL2IE26wct", "materials_note": "One Reading and Research folder covers both 799 courses this term.", "transcript_title": "Rdg&Rsch-Operatns&Info Mgmt" }, { "id": "uwm-m-h-r-799-spring-2007", "degree": "mba", "school": "uwm", "term": "Spring 2007", "term_sort": 20071, "code": "M H R 799", "title": "Reading and Research: Management", "subject": "research", "kind": "course", "instructor": "", "instructor_source": "", "description": "Independent reading and research in management, taken alongside the OTM reading course in the final MBA semester while preparing for doctoral study. 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The folder holds lecture videos, a module quiz and R code.", "description_source": "materials", "materials_url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ugXIt39hupabN8keLuInaH50-ektecSa", "materials_note": "", "platform": "Coursera", "series": "" } ], "loose_folders": [ { "title": "OB Research Methods", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Bo-I68VIzyvHvwYDMdpNBfTPsUocQ8dQ", "note": "Field methods materials dated 2010 to 2012, including a subfolder from a later class. Not on the transcript." }, { "title": "PhD - Econometrics I", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TT91B8IxRm6v9NBsOyWi2uFfByUv0fOA", "note": "A second econometrics folder (syllabus and Stata intro). 90-906 links to the Econometrics I folder." }, { "title": "Intergroup Relations", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VAYUBWTAe40F5o1YeRlUBAhge9E7giSs", "note": "Pitt Psychology 2110, Fall 2008. Not on the CMU transcript, so probably sat in." }, { "title": "Social Perspectives on HCI", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZDiM7THovag-0B14pNavs-c-c2P_bgVD", "note": "CMU HCI mini, 2009. Not on the transcript." }, { "title": "Advanced Models in IS", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-JRvC4Prt6wRJz4ZmDdCVcEQP6Al1nWG", "note": "MATLAB materials. Not on the transcript." }, { "title": "Community Research", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lEBD1w95xEgFXC-CoalssyOqZ_Cf56Ne", "note": "Readings on online community research. Not on the transcript." }, { "title": "Dropped", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YV-ZTinlnLyricPX4g3os4wfNTsK898W", "note": "Courses started and dropped at CMU and Pitt." }, { "title": "Mark Twain", "url": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1asrKTJxoq-4O87YBSi_Em_8k_itB-3Rh", "note": "A Mark Twain paper from Old College Stuff. No matching course on the UW-Whitewater transcript." } ] }