Mass collaboration and CSCL

learning, working and collaboration → new learning organizations → new media and new technologies

32. Problems transcending the individual human mind problems of magnitude, which individuals, even large teams, cannot solve

• Scratch
• Wikipedia

problems of systemic nature, requiring collaboration of many different minds from variety of backgrounds

• lifelong elarning
• aging population
• energy sustainability

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Consumer culture → culture of participation, provide all people with the means to participate actively in personally meaningful problems, citing Benkler and Tapscott.

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• participation overload
  • DIY societies
  • companies offloading work to customers
• accumulation of irrelevant information
• lack of coherent voices (→ fragmented cultures)

Develop assessment of MOOCs from LS perspective. Identify core competencies of residential, research-based universities.

• cultures of participation
  • enrich the landscape of learning
• by representing
  • fundamental opportunities, challenges and transformative changes
• for
  • innovative theoretical foundations and systematic development
• in learning sciences in general and CSCL specifically

• individual = cognitive system
• autopoeietic: exists through own operations
• operations = thinking
• operationally closed: thoughts build on thoughts
• can be stimulated by the environment
• processes information
• system can assimilate/accomodate

• Community as a social system: autopoietic & closed (not cognitive system)
• operates through communication, syntehsis of message, information & understanding
• develops own conventions, social norms, rules
• information processing: what becomes central, influential, what dies out?
• can be stimulated by the environment

Coupling between social system and cognitive systems. Each can provide environment for the other, stimulate each other → leads to individual learning and collaborative knowledge construction.

• How does social system process information?
• How does it make use of the individual cognitive systems?

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