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Modern Communities of Practice: Building, Maintaining and Measuring Impact
Modern communities of practice (CoP) built on a foundation of technology and social media are emerging on a global scale. Considering the speed at which technology evolves, best practices also continue to evolve for building, maintaining and measuring the effectiveness … Continue reading
Stigmergic Self-organization and the Improvisation of Ushahidi
There has been considerable investigation into the nature, effectiveness and performance of virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual collaboration based on the affordances of information and communications technology (ICT). The recent emergence of location-based social network technologies has resulted in … Continue reading
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The Biological Foundations of Virtual Realities and their Implications for Human Existence
Humberto Maturana. Purpose: To consider the implications of the operation of the nervous system – and of the constitution of cultures as closed networks of languaging and emotioning – for how we understand and generate so-called “virtual realities.” Findings – … Continue reading
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Perspectives on Tag Clouds for supporting Reflection in Self-Organised Learning
Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable attention meta-data on a person’s interests because the participants actively relate resources to concepts by using tags. … Continue reading
Emergence of a beautiful spiral – how to marry technology and life in designing virtual communities
Read Our inquiry is based on the theory of complexity applied to education. This means that the “linear, sequential, easily quantifiable ordering system dominating education today – one focusing on clear beginnings and definite endings—could give way to a more … Continue reading
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Learning in Informal Online Networks and Communities
Lifelong learning plays a crucial role in society today as jobs, and the skills they require, are changing. Recent technological and social developments in online settings have the potential to support lifelong learning in new ways. Online collaborative spaces can … Continue reading
Global Youth Culture
The continued growth of the Internet throughout Asia, Latin America, and Europe, as well as in parts of Africa, means that material on the global Internet will continue to become more diverse. Still, the hundreds of millions of global youth … Continue reading
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