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  • Mapping ideas with children

    We are selecting schools interested in using a knowledge mapping tool – COHERE -with their students. COHERE is a visual tool to create, connect and share ideas. Here is an example…

    Smart Mobs, Networks and Collectives

    In the presentation below, Rheingold describes the coming world of collaboration as a participatory media and collective action. He also discusses how Wikipedia, an outgrowth of our natural human instinct, works as a group.

    The spirit of collaboration, a key issue for the open content movement, reinforces  new concepts such as “smart mobs” , ”networks” . . . → Read More: Smart Mobs, Networks and Collectives

    Open Content – Amateur Innovation

    Charles Leadbeater presents several cases about “amateur innovation”  -  people who have the tools to collaborate and innovate make their expertise known through great ideas from outside the traditional walls.

    Charles Leadbeater’s theories on innovation have compelled some of the world’s largest organizations to rethink their strategies.    His book, We-Think explores how this emerging . . . → Read More: Open Content – Amateur Innovation

    Intellectual property rights x Free Culture

    Professor Lessig rethinks intellectual property rights by judging a balance of forces between commerce and community. His main argument focuses on reviving our creative culture.

     

    His presentation in TED and his book present a very interesting combative manifesto enhancing How creativity is being strangled by the law

    Larry Lessig is is one of the . . . → Read More: Intellectual property rights x Free Culture

    The Wealth of Networks

    Another interesting book is The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Common license . . . → Read More: The Wealth of Networks

    Developing learning content for reuse

    Learning resources and facilities needed are insufficient to attend the needs of higher education which is expanding rapidly even in development countries. The estimated number of academic students around the world in 2025 is 160 million (See John Daniel, Mega Universities and Knowledge Media – Kogan Page 1996). Reusing online reources is one of the . . . → Read More: Developing learning content for reuse

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