Now, things are getting really interesting, and I am constantly amazed at
the magnitude of that which I have not yet found on the web. This comes by
way of Simon Buckingham Shum's (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/) report
in the latest sigWeb about Computer-supported Collaborative Argumentation
for Learning Communities; IBIS, as Eric Armstrong and I have been referring
to collaborative argumentation tools.
All of the papers in the conference he mentions can be found at
http://sll-6.stanford.edu/CSCL99/paperindex.html, and the paper that lent
the subject line can be found at http://kn.cilt.org/cscl99/A09/A09.HTM the
abstract for which is
"This paper describes the WebCenter, a CSCL tool being developed to support
the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Campus
Program, an effort to strengthen local communities of practice performing
the scholarship of teaching and learning and to create a national
constellation of communities of practice that transverses them. The
WebCenter provides a suite of groupware tools for the use of Campus Program
participants. The WebCenter uses two analysis systems to act as social
agents to stimulate activity. First, a collaborative filtering system is
used to encourage national and cross-disciplinary collaboration between
scholars of teaching and learning. Second, an automated peer-review and
invitation system, based on the model of a consensus journal, is being
developed for three purposes: to support the development of national
consensus on the criteria for assessing the scholarship of teaching and
learning, to stimulate the production of scholarship meeting these
criteria, and to lend credibility to scholarship published on the WebCenter"
Homepage for WebCenter is http://aahe.ital.utexas.edu
I bring this paper to the front because, as the subject line (title of the
paper) suggests, the paper is really about a NIC in Douglas Engelbart's OHS
sense. It has been my opinion for some time now that education is, in
reality, the bedrock use case for Networked Improvement infrastructures.
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