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"About About the content of this website Welcome to the Open Living Lab Knowledge Centre. The knowledge centre contains a body of knowledge about the living lab methodology. But the Centre is also a community: we want to bring developers, researchers, and other stakeholders in the living lab field together to share knowledge and experiences. The website has the following purposes:"

By Christian Kohls (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany); Joachim Wedeknd (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany), Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. 2011. Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solutions for recurrent problems with respect to fitting context. This publication addresses both e-learning practitioners and researchers, using an accessible language to communicate sophisticated knowledge and important research methods and results.

"Knowledge is specific to a person. It's information that has been filtered by a person's interests and integrated into his or her understanding."

History of Knowledge

by Derek Bruff, November 6, 2011. The best justification of the Innovation Lab premise that I have seen. "Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."" Often our students engage in what Ken Bain, vice provost and a historian at Montclair State University, calls strategic or surface learning, instead of the deep learning experiences we want them to have. Deep learning is hard work, and students need to be well motivated in order to pursue it. Extrinsic factors like grades aren't sufficient-they motivate competitive students toward strategic learning and risk-averse students to surface learning. Social pedagogies provide a way to tap into a set of intrinsic motivations that we often overlook: people's desire to be part of a community and to share what they know with that community. My students might not see the beauty and power of mathematics, but they can look forward to participating in a community effort to learn about math. Online, social pedagogies can play an important role in creating such a community. These are strong motivators, and we can make use of them in the courses we teach.

By Charles Ehin, September 2, 2009 on Knowledge Board. Author "explains why knowledge workers who want to expand the innovative capacities of their organisations need to pay much closer attention to human nature."

IKSME is a research institute that focuses on improving information access and knowledge sharing in the education sector.

According to the About page, Tagasauris helps it's user-clients to generate metadata for their photos and other "knowledge-work." Users upload photos and a distributed network of Tagasaurus on-demand employees generate the metadata. Users are charged a fee for this service.

As of Sept 2012, video & audio are "coming soon." I'm not sure if they are yet equipped to handle "knowledge work." Also unclear where true crowdsourcing comes in. It sounds like they provide the (selected) crowd, rather than this being a platform one can employ to open work to the larger crowd.

Interesting academic opportunity in London, an MSc in Learning Technologies offered by the London Knowledge Lab. The program directors are Diana Laurillard and Alex Poulovassilis. The program focuses both on computer science and on learning theory. Link to application details on this page.

"The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between...the Institute of Education and Birkbeck" (both UK). Computer scientists and social scientists work together to study issues in education, sociology, media, the semantic web, etc.

excellent introduction to what the alliance does. see description below: Business or Operational Model: how the initiative fits into the organization's ecosystem. 2.Social Architecture: how collaboration is facilitated and what aspects should supported, such as performance support; communities of practice; knowledge management, informal learning or distributed work teams. 3.Technology Platform: identifying and implementing technologies that are best-suited for the organization's business and collaboration objectives and how they can be integrated within existing constraints.

I like his division of services into business or operational model, social architecture, and technology platform

This blog acts as the home home space for the online course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, considered to be an early example of a MOOC. The course (and this blog) were developed by Stephen Downes and George Siemens, who co-facilitated the course. Using this interface, the course was offered in 2008 and 2009.

By Soha El Borno on Idealware, August 2012; originally published by TechSoup. Article focuses on nonprofits, but walks readers through some major ideas behind crowdsourcing, including pooling knowledge, microvolunteering, and crowd creation. Real-world examples are given for each.

By Colin Harrison in Education and the Knowledge Society: Information Technology Supporting Human Development by Tom J. van Weert, October 2004 (Springer, via Google Books).  Harrison's article is pp 244-246. He looks at how an online barter system (like his proposed Cybertroc) might facilitate ride-shares. One interesting idea is how this barter might help to build social capital in the area in which it is implemented and provides an interesting service to some who might otherwise be uninterested in "Information Society." Frustratingly, no details on the implementation of such an idea, other than to refer readers to a ride-share enacted during a 2003 French transportation strike. 

"The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading International Organization of developing and transition country researchers, policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. "

"Online collaboration delivering on-target solutions Doing business in today's world means stepping up to the plate to meet complex and fast moving challenges. To make critical business decisions, you need world-class expertise, preferably on-demand. How can you harness this knowledge for virtually any industry or functional area, anywhere, any time? The answer is 10EQS Online Collaboration. With 10EQS' global platform, you leverage a next-gen "workforce in a cloud" combining proven management consulting techniques with on-line mass collaboration."

As of Sept 2012, this project page seems out of date (last updated June 2009); project may be completed. From the About Qualti page Mission Statement, "We begin from a position that methodology is a distinctive form of social practice and knowledge production, and that research methods must be considered with/in the social contexts in which they are practised."

From it's About page, Protégé is an open-source platform where users can "implement a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats."

By Sarah Gooding, posted to WPMU.ORG (WordPress-Multisite-BuddyPress) on Feb 1st 2010. Gooding interviews Kyle Jones, a Knowledge and Learning Services Librarian at Darien Library (known to be "ahead of the curve" on technology). Jones has created several LMS course sites, with links provided.

By Rosemary Luckin, published by Routledge (UK), April 2010. Luckin is Professor of Learner-Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab. This book has just been released in the UK, and may not yet be available in US markets or libraries.