Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

Clay Shirky TED.com. Filmed July 2005; Posted July 2008.

on eduforge Open Source Learning Lab. Moodle Industry Training Management System (MITMS)

Table of Contents, including list of section headings.

Offered by The Sloan Consortium. Course description and pricing. Shopping cart.

Video by Dave Cormier on YouTube, September 13, 2010.

V3. Online data collection tool developed for purposes of LDSE project. Tool offers existing patterns that can be adopted or adapted as well as the opportunity to create a new pattern. The Learning Outcome for existing patterns are given as are methods and examples/ instances of a pattern.

possible inspiration for Rec Sys.

Home page for NetLogo, a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. The platform environment is available to download and sample models are are available online. Many are simulations and can qualify as digital learning objects.

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.

Excellent description of what we tried to start with first year of IL-SLI--now I know we are onto something!

By Paul Signorelli in American Libraries, Feb 15 2011. Arguing that libraries should offer effective e-learning programs, despite the fact that "libraries are far behind other organizations...."

In ScienceDirect - Procedia Computer Science, Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 2773-2998 (2010)

By Gail O. Mellow, Diana D. Woolis, and Diana Laurillard in Change, May-June 2011. Co-PIs Mellow and Woolis, along with Diana Laurillard, write about the GSCC project. Full article is available by subscription only; check with your local library for access.

Blog and business site for Nancy White, a leader in "online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups." The site includes both a blog that speaks to White's current work and interests, and also resources for online communities and related work.

White is a favorite of the KPI team.

By Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, and John D. Smith, published by CP Square, 2009.

By Seth Godin. His self-described topics of interest are "post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything."

A favorite of KPI

A slideshow by Scott Brown and Joe Murphy, originally presented at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference, 2011. If you use Android, i-Phone, or i-Pad, here are some apps recommended for librarians and "info pros."

By Lloyd Armstrong on his blog Changing Higher Education, May 23 2011. Announcement of a new Gates Foundation grant to aggregate data from several large post-secondary systems that are members of WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Ed) in order to get a better picture of outcome data.

Blog by Josh Bernoff, December 11, 2007 on the POST method: A Systematic Approach to Social Strategy. POST stands for people, objectives, strategy, and technology, another way of organizing work instead of the 5 Ps (purpose, people, problem, product, and then process). Believe this is relevant to our course, too.

Title: Companies are Erecting In-House Social Networks, June 26, 2011, This article intrigued me from the get-go because: 1) it speaks to the desire for people to be connected socially in their work; 2) it provides forums (opportunities) for the distantly-connected worker(s)/network member(s) to 'trickle-up' by sharing innovative practice/ideas; 3) it resembles Facebook for its ease of participation and entry level; 4) it creates a social network, which is the beginning of conversation, which is the beginning of collaboration, no? :-) We know that high school students LOVE the SLI because it gives them the opportunity to meet and greet and sometimes talk about meaningful social justice issues. But the hook is social, then learning. We have been talking about trying Facebook this year to ease the way in for up to 200 kids, but many school districts do not allow students to access Facebook from school computers. Maybe we need to explore Yammer or Chatter or look to see if there is a comparable open source app?

June 28 blog by Beth on social media measures. I like the emphasis on relationship building with the organization because a social learning communityis all about building respectful, caring, responsive partnerships on practice shared with others.