We did a Zoom session with Tom Malone.
Ferdi and Mark walked Tom through the Experience Strategy deck.
Here's Tom's feedback:
- What is the relationship with MIT Hive
- What is the cost in time for being engaged in MIT Open?
- Some people will benefit (global learners)
- Some will lose (faculty). Not interested in sharing their time. Want filters.
- High value time should be packaged as media - podcasts, videos — for broad distribution.
- Experts want to "build their reputation."
- MIT students and faculty like exclusivity.
- It means there’s easy access.
- We don’t necessarily want to decrease the value of that exclusivity
- We need to show that content can come from anywhere.
- It doesn’t have to be just MIT content.
- The alumna who misses MIT is a plausible scenario. She misses “Athens”
- The curator story is not plausible.
- Brian is not likely to be motivated to work for free.
- Maybe we create scenarios where every student is asked to contribute their favorite content.
- Maybe a course team does the work
- We should be clear that this work is done by a group of people, not just one person.