This user guide is for educational organisations interested in developing open education practices using popular social media. It is based on an analysis of the Otago Polytechnic experience 2006-2009, where a small group of teachers used social media to develop open education practices.
This paper locates the notion of technological revolutions in the Neo-Schumpeterian effort to
understand innovation and to identify the regularities, continuities and discontinuities in the process of
innovation. It looks at the micro- and meso-foundations of the patterns observed in the evolution of
technical change and the interrelations with the context that shape the rhythm and direction of innovation.
On this basis, it defines technological revolutions, examines their structure and the role that they play in
rejuvenating the whole economy through the application of the accompanying techno-economic paradigm.
This over-arching meta-paradigm or shared best practice 'common sense' is in turn defined and analysed
in its components and its impact, including the influence it exercises on institutional and social change.
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