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University of California San Diego

Social Computing

People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for creating online communities. What does the future hold? Learn how social computing can create collaboration experiences that go beyond what’s possible face to face.

Status: Driving engagement
Status: Digital Communications
Course9 hours

Featured reviews

PP

5.0Reviewed Mar 22, 2017

You will thank yourself for taking this course up. Assignments in this course are very well designed to give you a real experience. You have the best faulty here.

DH

5.0Reviewed Aug 29, 2016

I loved learning more about social computation and the power of contributions by many people to reach a common design solution.

ML

5.0Reviewed Mar 9, 2016

Really interesting course. Good introduction to the dynamics of group behavior and collaboration. Nice overview of advantages of crowdsourcing, but no mention of any ethical or economic concerns.

VB

5.0Reviewed Feb 12, 2017

The course has very good material especially in terms of crowdsourcing. Gave me really good insights in social thinking and how to relate it to your product

AS

5.0Reviewed Mar 15, 2016

Great course. Do not forget to submit your work on time, otherwise you will not be graded.

ZE

5.0Reviewed Feb 14, 2017

This was an excellent primer on how social collaboration and crowdsourcing works. Gave a good understanding of the concepts involved when creating such platforms.

PG

5.0Reviewed Mar 28, 2017

Excellent course, provides tools needed to design applications based on social networks

JC

5.0Reviewed Sep 7, 2015

It was interesting to learn via Coursera. My very first time online course ever and I enjoyed it. :)

SB

5.0Reviewed Oct 25, 2017

Everything about the course is great - the concepts, the presentation of the concepts, the assignments and even the quiz.

AY

5.0Reviewed May 1, 2017

I had awesome experience while studying a t this course. Must-attend in case you are interested in society psychology

MR

5.0Reviewed Sep 5, 2015

This is one of the most innovative courses that I have seen. It really helped in thinking out of box.

SE

4.0Reviewed Mar 4, 2019

Started off strong, but is missing the key aspects of social networks and how to integrate their prevalence into our designs.

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