“The CUNY Academic Commons: fostering faculty use of the social web“

February, 2011 – Matt Gold and George Otte

The authors published a case study in the journal On the Horizon, chronicling the steps they took to develop and implement the Commons.

… open and participatory forms of academic social spaces within the CUNY system encourage peer-to-peer learning among faculty members and experimentation with socialmedia in the classroom. As a generative platform for engaging social media, the CUNY Academic Commons is making the professoriate of the largest urban public university system in the world more visible to itself and to a wider public.