Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

The librarians can help with organizing and finding popular content.

on nancydixonblog.com. May 3, 2011.

By Doug Belshaw on his blog, dougbelshaw.com, July 25 2012. Belshaw -- who works on badge-related projects for Mozilla Foundation -- describes a new plug-in for WordPress that facilitates creating badges.

I'm bookmarking this to keep in the back of our minds. As we develop the GSCC project -- or possibly for other e-PD projects -- badges may become of greater interest. Interesting to see how badges can be done on WordPress platforms.

provides a comparison of e-learning authoring tools

By Lanwitches on Langwitches blog, March 29, 2010. This blog post includes a slideshow that describes 70 web-based tools that might be of interest to educators. The tools are only roughly categorized. As the author notes, "It is not about the tools, it's about the skills." That said, there are some interesting tools here.

From About, "Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics." There are all kinds of interesting features on their site, including Showcases (exemplary work), Tools, and useful Datasets.

Oxford Brookes University (UK) is developing a 5-week MOOC based on the content of their course, First Steps Into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The project is being funded by the Higher Education Academy. Many of the February 2012 posts to this blog describe the project. Stay tuned for more information.

Very interesting stats on education--check out Education 2.0, how technology enhanced learning, etc. Socrato! website

"What is LIVING LAB? LIVING LAB is a research and development infrastructure to research human interaction with, and stimulate the adoption of, sustainable, smart and healthy innovations around the home. Occupant interaction with the home can be studied in an adaptable and controllable home environment. This way the technical development, the implementation and the social uptake of sustainable innovations can be accelerated. LIVING LAB brings together Europe's top research institutes and companies and aims to stimulate cooperative projects in the fields of user centred research and product development."

By cmcraft (Dr. Chris Craft) on his blog, Crucial Thought. Craft posts his criticisms of 2.0 and his experience transitioning to Haiku.

Note that Craft works with 6th graders, so his use of Moodle is quite different from ours.

An organization (Gates funded?) that is devoted to educational k-12 reform. They are using social networking to "rate" and raise issues around ed reform, specifically about teacher hiring/firing. Interesting use of social networking for grass roots ed reform.

beta620: Experimental Projects from The New York Times. "The Recommendation Engine allows us to leverage the power of distributed computing to reference each user's personal browsing history, then leverage connection via our semantic tags...." Deep Dive offers the ability to dig deeper on a requested piece of content and bring connected items together.

"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. "

A special feature in the Technology section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 26 2012. The 12 Innovators run the gamut and include an advocate for mobile learning, edu-Punk and digital storytelling (ds) 106 guru, ideas about open learning from Carnegie Mellon, and the director of Hathi Trust's digital library. None of these profiles is in-depth, but each might launch a more in-depth look at the individual or his/her project.

Related: Hacking the Academy. One of the innovators mentioned in this article, Dan Cohen, is at George Mason University, the institution behind Hacking the Academy.

Posted by Morten Mystad on the blog Myrstad's Blog, May 27 2011. For more on the topic, see tag ed_curation

Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (Translating Leading Science into Clinical Candidates Through Networked Collaboration) is dedicated to the establishment of global partnerships between Academic Medical Centers and Pfizer to transform research and development through a focus on translational medicine.

Daytum is a project of infographic designer, Nicholas Feltron, that allows people to "collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data."

By Haydn Shaughnessy on Innovation Management. Published October 2010. "This major case study from Innovation Management "How to Build Innovation Communities" looks at the practical steps of one innovation community, in the mobile sector. The initiative captured over 1,000 new ideas, 29 going through to implementation, in its first six months online, and galvanised wider community activity and loyalty for the company. The document outlines best practice case in innovation community development..."

The term ideagora is used as the space for sharing ideas. The ideagora should operate as an ecosystem, one that allows processes to evolve organically. (InnoCentive and NineSigma mentioned in this article.)

Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people with little multimedia experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their own media (images, audio clips, and short video segments) and place them into pre-designed templates, which can play video and audio, link to other templates, zoom in on images, and more. Once the templates have been completed and linked together, the presentation is published and can then be downloaded and placed on the author's website or on a CD or DVD ROM. Authors may also leave their presentations on the Pachyderm server and link directly to them there. The result is an attractive, interactive Flash-based multimedia presentation.

This is no longer managed by NMC. The website for the Pachyderm open source community is http://www.pachyforge.org/

Like InnoCentive, NineSigma is an open Innovation service provider.