A Western View of China's Internal and External Innovation Ecosystem - ICT Se...Martha Russell
A network analysis of flows of information and investments a relationship perspective on the internal and external innovation ecosystems of China's ICT sectors. Crowd-sourced English language press release-type information provides a Western view in a systems framework.
The presentation will be structured as follow. The talk will first provide an introduction to the theory behind the Socio-Cultural Ecology (Pachler, Bachmair and Cook, 2010) and the notion of User-generated contexts (Cook, Pachler and Bachmair, accepted), which Cook (2009) has refined into an analytical tool called a ‘typology-grid’ (see below). The talk will then demonstrate how the typology-grid has been successfully been used to analyse and learn from the ALPS and conclude by inviting a critique of the typology-grid.
PARC: Apr 1, 2011
Contested Collective Intelligence: Resilience, Complexity & Sensemaking
Simon Buckingham Shum & Anna De Liddo
Knowledge Media Institute, Open Learning Network Project
Open University UK
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/anna
ABSTRACT
To thrive, organizational entities (learning communities; teams of analysts; formal companies) must make sense of a complex, changing environment. Our interest is in how sociotechnical “collective intelligence” infrastructures may augment this capacity. We are seeking conceptual lenses that illuminate this challenge, and draw ideas from resilience thinking, sensemaking, and complexity science. We propose that these motivate the concept of Contested Collective Intelligence (CCI), and give examples of how the Cohere platform is being designed in response to these requirements. This is a social/semantic web annotation and knowledge mapping environment, with tools for monitoring networks of ideas and generating novel analytics. We also report experimental integration with the Xerox Incremental Parser, in order to evaluate human+machine annotation of knowledge-level claims expressed through rhetorical moves in documents.
Simon Buckingham Shum is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director (Technology) at the UK Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), where he leads the Hypermedia Discourse Group. Following a PhD at U. York in HCI/Hypertext/Design Rationale (sponsored by Xerox EuroPARC) he has developed a human-centered computing perspective to the challenge of computer-supported sensemaking, reflected in the books Visualizing Argumentation and Knowledge Cartography. He co-founded the Compendium Institute and LearningEmergence.net. http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
Anna De Liddo is a Research Associate in KMi, where she works with Simon on the Open Learning Network project (olnet.org), focusing on the design and development of a Collective Intelligence infrastructure for the Open Education Resources movement. She gained her PhD at Polytechnic of Bari, investigating ICT for Participatory Planning and Deliberation, after which she held a postdoctoral position in KMi evaluating human-centred argument mapping for Climate Change. http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/anna
On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective IntelligenceSimon Buckingham Shum
We are transitioning to an era in which the authority of previously dependable sources of understanding is increasingly called into question, in tandem with societal and global challenges that require new ways of thinking. Correspondingly, hard questions are now being asked about our education system’s adequacy. Our challenge is to create the infrastructures in which “K–Life” learners develop the capacities to thrive personally, and as citizens, under unprecedented conditions of uncertainty. The capacity to make sense of complex personal, intellectual, and social dilemmas is what we need to foster in our children, graduates, researchers, and employees: these skills can be summarized as “social learning.” This session will describe a range of R&D initiatives to illustrate socio-technical responses to these challenges, including intensively collaborative projects like the SocialLearn Project, the OLnet Project, the Compendium Institute, and the Learning Warehouse.
Educator-NICs: Envisaging the Future of ICT–enabled Networked Improvement Communities
Learning Emergence Workshop • University of Bristol • 20th May 2014
A Western View of China's Internal and External Innovation Ecosystem - ICT Se...Martha Russell
A network analysis of flows of information and investments a relationship perspective on the internal and external innovation ecosystems of China's ICT sectors. Crowd-sourced English language press release-type information provides a Western view in a systems framework.
The presentation will be structured as follow. The talk will first provide an introduction to the theory behind the Socio-Cultural Ecology (Pachler, Bachmair and Cook, 2010) and the notion of User-generated contexts (Cook, Pachler and Bachmair, accepted), which Cook (2009) has refined into an analytical tool called a ‘typology-grid’ (see below). The talk will then demonstrate how the typology-grid has been successfully been used to analyse and learn from the ALPS and conclude by inviting a critique of the typology-grid.
PARC: Apr 1, 2011
Contested Collective Intelligence: Resilience, Complexity & Sensemaking
Simon Buckingham Shum & Anna De Liddo
Knowledge Media Institute, Open Learning Network Project
Open University UK
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/anna
ABSTRACT
To thrive, organizational entities (learning communities; teams of analysts; formal companies) must make sense of a complex, changing environment. Our interest is in how sociotechnical “collective intelligence” infrastructures may augment this capacity. We are seeking conceptual lenses that illuminate this challenge, and draw ideas from resilience thinking, sensemaking, and complexity science. We propose that these motivate the concept of Contested Collective Intelligence (CCI), and give examples of how the Cohere platform is being designed in response to these requirements. This is a social/semantic web annotation and knowledge mapping environment, with tools for monitoring networks of ideas and generating novel analytics. We also report experimental integration with the Xerox Incremental Parser, in order to evaluate human+machine annotation of knowledge-level claims expressed through rhetorical moves in documents.
Simon Buckingham Shum is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director (Technology) at the UK Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), where he leads the Hypermedia Discourse Group. Following a PhD at U. York in HCI/Hypertext/Design Rationale (sponsored by Xerox EuroPARC) he has developed a human-centered computing perspective to the challenge of computer-supported sensemaking, reflected in the books Visualizing Argumentation and Knowledge Cartography. He co-founded the Compendium Institute and LearningEmergence.net. http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
Anna De Liddo is a Research Associate in KMi, where she works with Simon on the Open Learning Network project (olnet.org), focusing on the design and development of a Collective Intelligence infrastructure for the Open Education Resources movement. She gained her PhD at Polytechnic of Bari, investigating ICT for Participatory Planning and Deliberation, after which she held a postdoctoral position in KMi evaluating human-centred argument mapping for Climate Change. http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/anna
On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective IntelligenceSimon Buckingham Shum
We are transitioning to an era in which the authority of previously dependable sources of understanding is increasingly called into question, in tandem with societal and global challenges that require new ways of thinking. Correspondingly, hard questions are now being asked about our education system’s adequacy. Our challenge is to create the infrastructures in which “K–Life” learners develop the capacities to thrive personally, and as citizens, under unprecedented conditions of uncertainty. The capacity to make sense of complex personal, intellectual, and social dilemmas is what we need to foster in our children, graduates, researchers, and employees: these skills can be summarized as “social learning.” This session will describe a range of R&D initiatives to illustrate socio-technical responses to these challenges, including intensively collaborative projects like the SocialLearn Project, the OLnet Project, the Compendium Institute, and the Learning Warehouse.
Educator-NICs: Envisaging the Future of ICT–enabled Networked Improvement Communities
Learning Emergence Workshop • University of Bristol • 20th May 2014
Remapping the Global and Local in Knowledge Production: Roles of Open AccessLeslie Chan
It is generally acknowledged that researchers and institutions in the Global South suffer from knowledge isolation because of poor infrastructure and lack of access to key resources, including the current literature. The remedy is therefore capacity building and the transfer of not only knowledge, but also the institutional framework of knowledge creation from the North to the South. In this context, Open Access to the scholarly literature is seen as a means of bridging the global knowledge gap.
In this presentation, I argue that a key contributor to the continual knowledge divide and the invisibility of knowledge from the Global South is the persistence and dominance of Northern frameworks of research evaluation and quality metrics, coupled with outmoded national and international innovation policies based on exclusion and competitiveness. These narrow measures have tended to skew international research agenda and undermine locally relevant research.
A great opportunity that Open Access provides is the means to develop alternative metrics of research uptake and impact that are more inclusive of knowledge from the South, particularly those with development outcomes. In particular, it is important to re-conceptualize and re-design the metrics of research impact to reflect new scholarly practices and the diverse means of engagement enabled by OA and the new wave of social media tools. At the same time, appropriate policies need to be developed to reward open scholarship and to encourage research sharing — issues of particular importance for ending knowledge isolation. Examples of the new kinds of “invisible college” enabled by networking tools and OA will be presented, and particular attention will be paid to innovations emanating from the periphery.
Open Access, Journal, Institutional Repository and BeyondLeslie Chan
Presentation at the Scholarly Communication Retreat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Oct.6, 2015. This talk is a personal perspective on Open Access and what I see as the key impetus for engaging in open access practices. I highlight some recent innovations, both in terms of tools and modes of collaborative research enabled by OA. I also highlight recent developments in financial models in support of OA journal and monograph publishing.
Globlal Perspective on Open Research: A Bird's Eye ViewLeslie Chan
Presentation at the University of Cape Town, Aug. 5, 2011. This talk was part of the OpenUCT initiative and the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme. It provides an overview of the changing research landscape and the particular importance of open access and other forms of open collaboration for solving some of the pressing problems of development research. The presentation argues for the importance of policy development in support of research collaboration and the development of enriched metrics for evaluating the development impact of research.
Workshop 5 - Brainstorming & Policy Development session: Social Aspects
"Presentation of Social Challenges of RD patients
in the Joint Action on Rare Diseases"
Dorica Dan, Romanian National Alliance
Remapping the Global and Local in Knowledge Production: Roles of Open AccessLeslie Chan
It is generally acknowledged that researchers and institutions in the Global South suffer from knowledge isolation because of poor infrastructure and lack of access to key resources, including the current literature. The remedy is therefore capacity building and the transfer of not only knowledge, but also the institutional framework of knowledge creation from the North to the South. In this context, Open Access to the scholarly literature is seen as a means of bridging the global knowledge gap.
In this presentation, I argue that a key contributor to the continual knowledge divide and the invisibility of knowledge from the Global South is the persistence and dominance of Northern frameworks of research evaluation and quality metrics, coupled with outmoded national and international innovation policies based on exclusion and competitiveness. These narrow measures have tended to skew international research agenda and undermine locally relevant research.
A great opportunity that Open Access provides is the means to develop alternative metrics of research uptake and impact that are more inclusive of knowledge from the South, particularly those with development outcomes. In particular, it is important to re-conceptualize and re-design the metrics of research impact to reflect new scholarly practices and the diverse means of engagement enabled by OA and the new wave of social media tools. At the same time, appropriate policies need to be developed to reward open scholarship and to encourage research sharing — issues of particular importance for ending knowledge isolation. Examples of the new kinds of “invisible college” enabled by networking tools and OA will be presented, and particular attention will be paid to innovations emanating from the periphery.
Open Access, Journal, Institutional Repository and BeyondLeslie Chan
Presentation at the Scholarly Communication Retreat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Oct.6, 2015. This talk is a personal perspective on Open Access and what I see as the key impetus for engaging in open access practices. I highlight some recent innovations, both in terms of tools and modes of collaborative research enabled by OA. I also highlight recent developments in financial models in support of OA journal and monograph publishing.
Globlal Perspective on Open Research: A Bird's Eye ViewLeslie Chan
Presentation at the University of Cape Town, Aug. 5, 2011. This talk was part of the OpenUCT initiative and the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme. It provides an overview of the changing research landscape and the particular importance of open access and other forms of open collaboration for solving some of the pressing problems of development research. The presentation argues for the importance of policy development in support of research collaboration and the development of enriched metrics for evaluating the development impact of research.
Workshop 5 - Brainstorming & Policy Development session: Social Aspects
"Presentation of Social Challenges of RD patients
in the Joint Action on Rare Diseases"
Dorica Dan, Romanian National Alliance
The research library: scalable efficiency and scalable learninglisld
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“Knowledge Across Borders: Accelerate Building Trust to Unleash Innovation” - A presentation given by Dr. Martha Russell in Business Institute, Olso, Norway on October 7, 2010.
What does the future of design for online learning look like? Emerging techno...George Veletsianos
These are the slides of an invited talk I gave at ICEM 2012. The session was described as follows: What will we observe if we take a long pause and examine the practice of online education today? What do emerging technologies, openness, Massive Open Online Courses, and digital scholarship tell us about the future that we are creating for learners, faculty members, and learning institutions? And what does entrepreneurial activity worldwide surrounding online education mean for the future of education and design? In this talk, I will discuss a number of emerging practices relating to online learning and online participation in a rapidly changing world and explain their implications for design practice. Emerging practices (e.g., open courses, researchers who blog, students who use social media to self-organize) can shape our teaching/learning practice and teaching/learning practice can shape these innovations. By examining, critiquing, and understanding these practices we will be able to understand potential futures for online learning and be better informed on how we can design effective and engaging online learning experiences. This talk will draw from my experiences and research on online learning, openness, and digital scholarship, and will present recent evidence detailing how researchers, learners, educators are creating, sharing, and negotiating knowledge and education online.
Open collaborative platforms, education and research: MOOCs, ILDEdavinia.hl
Open collaborative platforms, education and research: MOOCs, ILDE
Plenary session: Global partnership for development. The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action
SIS2016, 1st Conference on Social Impact of Science, Barcelona, July 27, 2016
https://daviniahl.wordpress.com/
Scholars in the Open: Networked Identities vs. Institutional IdentitiesBonnie Stewart
The public presentation of self is identity work, but the networked practices by which scholars build a name and reputation for their work differ from the practices and strategies used - and recognized - within the academy. This presentation explores Bonnie Stewart's dissertation research into how networked scholars circulate identity and reputation in networked publics.
Keynote Address, Expanding Horizons 2012, Macquarie University
http://staff.mq.edu.au/teaching/workshops_programs/expanding_horizons
"Learning Analytics": unprecedented data sets and live data streams about learners, with computational power to help make sense of it all, and new breeds of staff who can talk predictive models, pedagogy and ethics. This means rather different things to different people: unprecedented opportunity to study, benchmark and improve educational practice, at scales from countries and institutions, to departments, individual teachers and learners. "Benchmarking" may trigger dystopic visions of dumbed down proxies for 'real teaching and learning', but an emu response is no good. For educational institutions, our calling is to raise the quality of debate, shape external and internal policy, and engage with the companies and open communities developing the future infrastructure. How we deploy these new tools rests critically on assessment regimes, what can be logged and measured with integrity, and what we think it means to deliver education that equips citizens for a complex, uncertain world.
Using Badging as an Open Educational ResourceKelsey O'Brien
With a rapidly shifting information landscape, teachers struggle to remediate students for whom digital literacy is a struggle and maintain the interest of students for whom this knowledge comes more easily. Furthermore, higher education is under broad criticism for not preparing graduates for the 21st-century workplace. Badging allows educators to meet students at their level. Learn how the State University of New York Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative developed an open badging resource to hone students' research and literacy skills and applied it broadly in credit-bearing courses and as the key coursework for two MOOCs.
Making Web2.0 for science: Co-production of Web2.0 platforms and knowledgeJames Stewart
This paper examines how two contrasting scholarly publishers are responding to the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 to innovate their services. Our findings highlight the need to take seriously the role of publishers in the move towards a vision of more rapid and open scholarly communication and to understand the factors that shape their role as intermediaries in the innovation pathways that may be needed to achieve it.
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2. Key Messages
• Open Access as a philosophical principle and a set
of practical tools
• “Journal” no longer serves the needs of networked
scholarship
• From “Wealth of Nations” to “Wealth of Networks”
• Need to rethink measurements of “impact” and
values, especially for research for the public goods
• Innovations are happening in the “peripheries” but
there are gatekeepers and social barriers
• Aligning funding and reward policies with new
scholarly practices and inclusive metrics
5. “Now as then, the hacker is
characterised by an active
approach to technology, undaunted
by hierarchies and established
knowledge, and finally a
commitment to sharing information
freely.”
http://cspp.oekonux.org/special-issues/expanding-the-frontiers-of-
6. Cohen, Dan, and Tom Scheinfeldt, eds. Hacking the Academy: A Book
Crowdsourced in One Week. Center for History and New Media,
George Mason University. 21-28 May 2010.
http://hackingtheacademy.org/
10. Problems
• Current Scholarly Communication system is broken
• Emerging tools are not being used effectively to serve
scholarship
• Re-designing Scholarly Communications
11. The Dysfunctional Economy of Scholarly
Communications
• Commodification of public
knowledge
Bundling
• Oligopoly
• Artificial scarcity
• Homogeneity of forms and
functions
• Reputation management
12. Hacking the bundle
Explore ways by which new practices can be
coded (codified) so that the key functions of
scholarly communication – authoring,
certification, quality control, archiving, and
rewarding - can be decoupled and better served
by emerging tools for collaborative authoring,
sharing, and reputation management.
13. This is not just a technology issue, but a
socio-political problem.
14. Institutional
Design
Sustainability as a set
of institutional
structures and
processes that build
and protect the
knowledge commons
(after Sumner 2005,
Mook and Sumner 2010)
15. Broadening the definition of “success”, “impact”,
“value” and “capital”
Business value monetary return, financial capital,
efficiency, competiveness
Scholarly value Reputation and citation; trust; symbolic
capital
Institutional value Public mission, community outreach,
intellectual capital
Social value Equity, participation, diversity, social
capital
Political value Evidence based policy, transparency,
accountability, civic capital
20. The JIF is appallingly open to manipulation; mature alt-
metrics systems could be more robust, leveraging the
diversity of of alt-metrics and statistical power of big data to
algorithmically detect and correct for fraudulent activity.
This approach already works for online advertisers, social
news sites, Wikipedia, and search engines.
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
22. Scholarly Primitives
Discovering Annotating Comparing
Referring Sampling Illustrating
“…basic functions
Representing common to scholarly
activity across
disciplines, over time,
John Unsworth. "Scholarly Primitives: What Methods Do Humanities
Researchers Have in Common and How Might Our Tools Reflect and independent of
This?" "Humanities Computing, Formal Methods, Experimental
Practice" Symposium, Kings College, London, May 13, 2000. theoretical orientation.”
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Kings.5-00/primitives.html
23. Opportunities for Digital
Scholarship
Public outreach
and engagement
New forms of
Service
“impact”
Student training Data sharing
New scholarly
Curation
practices
Personalization Experimentations
Interdisciplinary
Professional
and Collaborative
development
research
24. Scholarly Primitives and Reputation?
Discovering Annotating Comparing Referring
Sampling Illustrating Representing
John Unsworth. "Scholarly Primitives: What Methods Do Humanities
Researchers Have in Common and How Might Our Tools Reflect
This?" "Humanities Computing, Formal Methods, Experimental
Practice" Symposium, Kings College, London, May 13, 2000.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Kings.5-00/primitives.html
28. Conclusions
• Open Access is just the substrate, but
an essential one
• Metrics drive behaviour, but we have
been using the wrong metrics
• Need to rethink what we value as a
public institution
• Reward open scholarship
29. http://www.openoasis.org
http://www.bioline.org.br
http://www.openaccessmap.or
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Thank You!
chan@utsc.utoronto.ca
Editor's Notes
Open access models are proliferating, not only for sharing traditional forms of scholarly production (peer-reviewed papers), but also among new forms of content, especially databases and media archives.Data are increasingly born digital
