Month: August 2015

Disclaimer when we say MOOC we are NOT talking about a massive open online course but instead referring to a massive online/offline collaboration. Collaboration can be a bitch. Communication is often strained. Working across time zones with dispersed teams results in often heard phrases such as; “can you hear me?” or “let me restart!” or my favorite “are you getting an echo?” As I write this we have close to 700 people collaborating within the Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things project from 60+ countries. The collaboration is currently broken into two camps — those who applied to the MOOC and those who have formed teams outside of the MOOC. Both are working towards similar goals as they build prototypes intended to answer the Sherlock Global Challenge. They come from a diversity ...