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Abstract: We borrow from computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) the lessons learned from the eight challenges of business groupware. Groupware decentralizes communication and control across existing institutional boundaries, often leading to organizational change. We will share how Georgia Gwinnett College applies CSCW challenges to select, deploy, and evaluate collaborative technology.

The key features of 21st Century Pedagogy are:\n\n * building technological, information and media fluencies[Ian Jukes]\n * Developing thinking skills\n * making use of project based learning\n * using problem solving as a teaching tool\n * using 21st C assessments with timely, appropriate and detailed feedback and reflection\n * It is collaborative in nature and uses enabling and empowering technologies\n * It fosters Contextual learning bridging the disciplines and curriculum areas\n

Christine Peterson, VP of the Foresight Institute, coined the term "open source" in the late 1990s. She now proposes that this concept of peer-based collaboration and sharing can be applied to another emerging technology - sensors. See Also * h+ Magazine Current Issue * Search (and Destroy) Engines * Not So Quiet on the Cyber Front * Hacking The Economy "The intent of the project is to take advantage of advances in sensing to improve both security and the environment, while preserving - even strengthening - privacy, freedom, and civil liberties," says Peterson in a recent press release. h+ Magazine spoke with Ms. Peterson about this open-source style project, known as the Open Source Sensing initiative.

Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: * authors create and collaborate * instructors rapidly build and share custom collections * learners find and explore content

The best way of movement is "let's do this together" kind of experience. This is the job description shared by Brains on Fire (how great is having a name like that?) in their manifesto 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements. What are movements about? They are about: