Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

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

Quia is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. It provides instructional tools including: templates for creating online activities, online testing tools, access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes, a schoolwide network to promote collaboration, a centralized classroom management system, a class Web page creator and online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback.

Guest post by Karen Schweitzer On Mission to Learn blog.

By ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee, June 2010. Full text PDF is also available from this page.

Guest post by Gaurav Mishra on Beth's Blog, July 22, 2009. Mishra describes the 4Cs: content, collaboration, community, and collective intelligence.

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.

Wiki site encourages collaboration and sharing of education materials.

With Glogster, you can " upload photos, videos, text, audio and more to create a unique online, interactive poster." Their new EDU mini-site gives examples and a resource guide to help educators make effective use of this 2.0 tool.

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

A resource site that proclaims itself the "leading provider of internet video and rich media solutions for the scientific, technical and medical market." SciVee was founded in 2007.

Sococo offers virtual work spaces. (Mac version not available yet.)

on YouTube. Steven Weber talks "about the implications of the network paradigm for democracy, private property, and international relations."

Opening and closing remarks by Anthony S. Bryk, Stanford University and Louis M. Gomez, Northwestern University for symposium at American Educational Research Association Conference, April, 2007, Chicago, IL.

This is the table of contents (in draft form) from the pre-publication version of Open Innovation, edited by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, and published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Each chapter title links to the PDF of the draft version of the chapter. For more information on the book, including how to find the finished version, click on the home page link at the bottom.

By Leon Benjamin on KnowledgeBoard, July 1 2009. Recommendations about using social media within a company (or organization) and not just to network with the outside world.

By Catherine M. Casserly and Marshall S. Smith. This is a free pdf download of a chapter from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching publication, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge.

Q&A with Karim R. Lakhani by Martha Lagace, published in Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, November 20 2006. Lakhani's "research analyze[ed] how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists."

Conference listings, including links to topic summaries and a PDF of presentation slides. Conference was held in the summer of 2008; page last updated in June 2009.

From the home page, "Our focus as a Center is to conduct research, publish articles and develop teaching materials around a more distributed model of industry innovation, that we call 'Open Innovation.'"

An expert in open innovation, Chesbrough authored Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. This page is from his open innovation website.