Value creation in communities and networks

Het Ruud de Moor Centrum, expertisecentrum op het gebied van de professionalisering van leraren, presenteert het rapport "Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: A conceptual framework"

" (the publication) presents a conceptual foundation for promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks. By value creation we mean the value of the learning enabled by community involvement and networking. Therefore we focus on the value that networks or communities create when they are used for social learning activities such as sharing information, tips and documents, learning from each other’s experience, helping each other with challenges, creating knowledge together, keeping up with the field, stimulating change, and offering new types of professional development opportunities."

Education and social networking

Jose Picardo met "The case for online social networking in education".

"In this post, I aim to challenge preconceptions regarding the use of online social networking in education and to provide an alternative, more positive discourse highlighting the many benefits modern means of communication can bring to education".

Plagiarism has gone social

In de Wired Campus blog van de The Chronicle of Higher Education wordt een onderzoek besproken van de ontwikkelaars van de plagiaatdetectie software Turnitin, die stellen dat:
"social and user-generated Web sites are the most popular sources for student copying. Academic sites come in second, while paper mills and cheat sites are third".

Netwerken

Harvard Magazine publiceert een fraaie inleiding over onderzoek naar netwerken.
"The study of networks can illustrate how viruses, opinions, and news spread from person to person—and can make it possible to track the spread of obesity, suicide, and back pain. Network science points toward tools for predicting stock-price trends, designing transportation systems, and detecting cancer."

Commentaar van Georg Siemens in zijn elearnspace:
"The last sentence is key in understanding where the use of networks in society is trending: the general understanding of network properties sets in place the ability to analyze, predict, customize, etc. what individuals experience. Networks are no longer a means of understanding the present or the past, but a means by which to understand (probabilistically) the future behaviours of individuals, markets, and cells, as well as the flow of ideologies and information. Analytics are the next logical point of interest in networks".

Geschiedenis van de locatietechnologie

"Locatie" wordt of is het buzzwoord van het jaar, aldus George Siemens in zijn Elearnspace. Applicaties als Foursquare worden steeds vaker ingezet in mobiele social networking. Mashable geeft in een eenvoudige infographic de geschiedenis van dit nieuwe fenomeen weer.

Sociale netwerken in de wetenschap

Researchtrends van maart over het gebruik van sociale netwerken in de wetenschap in: Social networking in academia. Een zestal netwerken, waaronder Academia.edu en ResearchGATE passeren kort de revue en er is een verwijzing naar Cornell's research tool VIVO.

Het belang van mobiele telefoons, Twitter en Facebook

Clay Shirky over de betekenis van mobiele telefoons, Twitter en Facebook voor het vrije woord. Wederom een TED initiatief.
Duur: 17.03 min.

Twitter

In eerste instantie aan mijn aandacht ontsnapt, maar wel degelijk van belang in de discussie over het nut van het fenomeen Twitter, is het artikel Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope van Huberman, Romero en Wu in het januari nummer van First Monday.

"Many people, including scholars, advertisers and political activists, see online social networks as an opportunity to study the propagation of ideas, the formation of social bonds and viral marketing, among others. This view should be tempered by our findings that a link between any two people does not necessarily imply an interaction between them. As we showed in the case of Twitter, most of the links declared within Twitter were meaningless from an interaction point of view. Thus the need to find the hidden social network; the one that matters when trying to rely on word of mouth to spread an idea, a belief, or a trend".

Organization beyond social networks

Mark Federman bericht in zijn weblog What's the (next) message over een presentatie van de business antropologe Karen Stephenson, die een "organisational network" beschouwt als de genetische code om ondermeer de cultuur van een organisatie bloot te kunnen leggen.
"Networks cut through the official hierarchy and essentially map out who communicates or consults with whom, who enables or prevents information flow and access to whom, and who are the most and least effective disseminators of knowledge, influence, and social norms".

De antropologie van YouTube

Michael Wesch, Kansas State University, bekend van ondermeer
The Machine is Us/ing Us, met een prachtige lezing in de Library of Congres (23-06-2008) over social media, user-generated content en online communities (55.34 min.)
Absoluut het bekijken waard! NewTeeVee zegt het als volgt: "Consider it like a TED talk, but with more dancing".
(met dank aan Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy)

Social Networks

Het groeiende belang van Social Networks, zoals Hyves, wordt nog eens duidelijk gemaakt in deze Britse studie.
Hier de belangrijkste bevindingen:

49% of children 8-17 have an online profile
22% of 16+ have an online profile
On average adults have profiles on 1.6 sites
63% of 8 to 17-year-olds with a profile use Bebo
37% of 8 to 17-year-olds with profile use MySpace
18% of 8 to 17-year-olds with a profile use Facebook
59% of 8 to 17-year-olds use social networks to make new friends
16% of parents do not know if their child's profile is visible to all
33% of parents say they set no rules for their children's use of social networks
43% of children say their parents set no rules for use of social networks
Bron: Ofcom