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1 Paul S. Adler and Charles Heckscher: Towards Collaborative Community 2 Ernesto Arias (et al.) on Transcending the Individual Human Mind through Collaborative Design 3 Adam Arvidsson on the Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy 4 Yaneer Bar-Yam on Complexity, Hierarchy, and Networks 5 Richard Barbrook on the 'High-tech Gift Economy' 6 Yochai Benkler on Peer Production 7 James Boyle, on the Public Domain and the Second Enclosure movement 8 Vasilis Kostakis: At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm 9 George Caffentzis: On the Antagonistic Usage of the Commons Concept 10 Kevin Carson, on expanding peer production to the physical domain 11 Predrag Cicovacki, on the metaphysics of co-evolution and transdisciplinary methodology 12 Julia Cohen, on copyright law and sharing 13 Mark Cooper on a Policy for Collaborative Production 14 Mariarosa Dalla Costa on the Commons of Land and Food 15 Massimo De Angelis on The Production of the Commons and the Explosion of the Middle Class. 16 Massimo De Angelis on a political strategy to unite commons and political/social movements 17 Paul de Armond, on netwar in political protest 18 Erik Douglas, on peer governance and democracy 19 Stephen Downes on Free Learning and P2P epistemology 20 Nick Dyer-Witheford on the Circulation of the Common 21 Jo Freeman, on the dark side of Peer Governance 22 Brett Frischmann, an economic theory for the Commons 23 Richard Heinberg on The Decentralized Provisioning of the Basic Necessities as the Fight of the Century 24 John Heron on the relational ground of human consciousness: Notes on Spiritual Leadership and Relational Spirituality 25 Yasuhiko Genku Kimura: Creating a ommicentric Ideosphere 26 Vasilis_Kostakis et al. on Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing 27 Magnus Marsdal on Socialist Individualism 28 Ugo Mattei: The State, the Market, an

29 influential papers on Open Education collected by P2P Foundation

testing vs standards - age of adaptive 

In the previous post arun written about the need to design learning & high-performance ecosystems here, and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones.

In the previous post arun written about the need to design learning & high-performance ecosystems here, and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones.

What should a college graduate know and be able to do? There are as many views on that as there are colleges (thousands), if not individual professors and students (many more). The diversity of opinions about what a college education means has long been seen as a strength of American higher education. But in recent years, many employers and policy makers have argued that the lack of a common definition of what students should know and be able to do -- and a dearth of adequate methods of gauging whether they know it and can do it -- has contributed to a decline in the quality of higher education and to the awarding of more degrees, but of lesser value.

1 Cosma Orsi on The Political Economy of Solidarity 2 Bruno Perens on The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source 3 James Quilligan on a framework for Global Commons-based Governance 4 Alan Rayner: Attuning to Natural Energy Flows vs. Abstract Economic Rationality 5 Dirk Riehle on the Economics of Open Source Software 6 David Ronfeldt on the Evolution of Governance 7 Marshall Sahlins on The Original Affluent Society 8 Graham Seaman: Can peer production make washing machines? 9 Clay Shirky on the web as evolvable system 10 David Skrbina, the participatory worldview 11 Bruno Theret, on the tradition of 'civil socialism' 12 Evan Thompson, on the enactive theory of consciousness 13 Jeff Vail, The Problem of Growth: Hierarchy vs. the Rhizome 14 Kazys Varnelis on how network culture differs from postmodernism 15 Roberto Verzola on Undermining vs. Developing Abundance 16 Raoul Victor, on Free Software, the sharing culture, and Marxism

16 influential papers on Open Education collected by P2P Foundation

Elephant in the Room..