Hot Team: LionShare

Posted on July 21, 2006 
Filed Under Hot Team, White Papers

To quickly investigate and assess emerging technologies ETS employs a custom Hot Team process. A Hot Team is essentially a small group of instructional designers, technologists, faculty, or other interested parties who are given a fixed amount of time to quickly review a specific technology. In addition to reviewing technology, Hot Teams must discuss its applications to higher education and produce an analysis in the space of a few of weeks. One of the end products of this process is a white paper, which is a summary of the team’s discussion. Today, we’re releasing the white paper for a product called LionShare (http://lionshare.its.psu.edu). LionShare is a Peer-to-Peer application that enables faculty and staff to share academic matierials. The idea is similar to programs like LimeWire and Kazaa, except that users are authenticated and sharing can be restricted to individuals or groups of a certain type, such as all faculty at Penn State and Stanford University. We’ve included a few use cases to help people imagine how this tool could be used and there are a few interesting features (look at the PeerServer idea) and some areas for future development.

So have a look at the white paper and let us know what you think, both about the technology and the hot team process.

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