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Under the auspices of the US Department of Education, discussions are held via a listserve about professional development. This wiki contains an organized multi-day discussion on using video in teaching and staff development carried out through the list-serve. The list-serve is subscriber based but I guess both the discussion and accompanying wiki are open to the public. Issues for me: Should KPI consider offering the organized Jam transcript in the form of a wiki? Should it be open for discovery or only available to Jam participants?

Wiki of the P2P (peer to peer) foundation that studies "the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society." Topics include collaboration, "open" business models, "change institutions," etc.  Librarian's note: found this site while trying to learn more about cybertroc (online barter)

This wiki site is for shared ideas on affordances in learning environments.

Wiki site encourages collaboration and sharing of education materials.

About page on the group's wiki. This page goes into detail about the community. NMC campus is "Located in the virtual world of Second Life, it has been carefully constructed to provide researchers and students dozens of prebuilt settings for experiments in social interaction in 3D space."

Very interesting experiment by Packard Foundation to create a '"see through"filing cabinet' wiki open to the world.

By Justin Reich on Educational Technology Debate on December 8 2011. Reich argues, from his research on the use of wikis in the schools, that educational technology tends to benefit affluent students, rather than under-served students, primarily because there are more resources for students and teachers in the affluent environment, so teachers can use technology to its best advantage. He recommends technology initiatives that specifically target low-income and under-served students as a solution, and cites some interesting programs.

OER university, a wiki,"is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit." As of 11/2011, there are 15 international universities listed as "founding anchor partners," including Empire State College (SUNY) and Southern New Hampshire University in the U.S.

This wiki offers an evolving collection of technology tools for collaborative work and online education. It is maintained by Margaret Riel and faculty and others from the Masters of Arts in Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education and Psychology from Pepperdine University. There are a variety of tools and other useful links here -- watch out for currency, though. When visiting the site on 4/1/10, the last update had been Dec 2009.

Wiki site collects information about tools and resources to support research.

The self-declared "Community of Practice on Communities of Practice," this site offers a variety of opportunities for connection, from education programs to a wiki to members' blogs.

Posted by Stephen Downes, 2001, this guide is written as a Wiki, with an invitation for users to participate, adding their own experiences. The chapters are roughly chronological, with each describing a MOOC, it's learning goals, and any innovations that it included. This guide can be helpful in understanding the concept of MOOCs, and also in planning a MOOC of one's own.

Goog*lio noun (1) a hybrid next generation e-portfolio that utilizes emerging open, social, web2.0, and Google applications such as blogs, wikis, social networks and software to create a student created and controlled personal learning environment and lifelong content management system that can be shared and viewed from different perspectives, within various contexts, and for multiple purposes. noun (2) a free and easy to use portfolio web site for individuals to design as a space, story, and system that functions as a workspace and showcase for learners to collect, select, reflect, publish, link, archive, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, reflections, through multimedia artifacts. verb (3) "googlio it" to publish and connect a digital artifact to your webfolio. origin: rooted in the word folio (as in Da Vinci) + Google (as in all the free Google Apps & Tools) and evolved from portfolio -->

Posted in Wikipedia. Wikipedia describes sensemaking (also sense-making) as "the process by which people give meaning to experience."

SM - need to pursue add'l research on this topic

On the home page, it says, "Hieroglyph is a publication, collective conversation and incubator for the "moonshot ecosystem" bringing together writers, scientists, engineers, technologists, industrialists and other creative, synoptic thinkers to collaborate on bold ideas in a protected space for creative play, science, and imagination."

This platform is surely of interest. Uses a forum format, each of which contains a "big idea" that is described and discussed. In addition, the wiki contains curated content about the project.

From Wikipedia, essentially "Diffusion of Innovations is a theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures."

By Dan Woods in the JargonSpy column of Forbes.com June 9 2009. Woods explains how his work team can work more efficiently using collaborative mind mapping for projects.

From Wikipedia.

Curt Bonk is an amazing instructional design professor at Indiana University. Here he has 27 videos (about 10 minutes long each) covering everything from discussion forums (I learned a lot!) to Blended Learning to wiki uses and applications. All free!

Thanks to Doris and Diana for sharing - like the idea of the databank of 10 min videos. Excellent subjects that are of interest to KPI! I liked the one on Online Collaboration. - Stephanie

From Wikipedia, this definition of MOOC also provides outbound links for more information.