Prelude to a new type of learning experience: Before session 1

This is the starting point for your innovative learning journey, made possible by emerging digital technologies such as RSS, plus a supportive researcher and author based in England, Ajit Jaokar.  This course is so different from the standard business course that some of you may be outside your comfort zone, and you may want to enter the deadline for dropping the subject in your cellphone.  Hopefully, you will become more confident with time, and won't need it.

Instead of a textbook, we will use a wiki based on Ajit and Tony's book, Mobile Web 2.0. Each of you will contribute substantially to this wiki (in addition to a small license fee to the authors), and in the process will learn in a way that diverges from the  textbook and lecture model. 

You will also maintain a weblog of your learning experience here at Blogspot, which you will share with other members of the BM362 learning community. Much of your learning about applications of digital technology will be self-directed:  for example, you will learn to design and build streaming presentations on your own, and to publish this material in your own podcasts.

My role in this course is mainly to seek out, compile, and share relevant information about the business opportunities and issues arising from the emergence and diffusion of digital network technologies, to design learning experiences (including lectures and discussions in class) that will provide insights into the real world of electronic commerce, and to advise student teams in their efforts to develop viable project plans to take advantage of this new phenomenon.