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OpenLearn & the LabSpace

McAndrew P. Godwin S. Okada A. and Santos A. (2008). Researching open content in education JIME – The Journal of Interactive Media in Education ISSN 1365-893X [ http://jime.open.ac.uk/2008/]

Open University UK and the Open Content Initiative: John Dehlin interviews Simon Buckingham Shum for Open Up! Podcast #005 (Mar, 2006), Center for Open & Sustainable Learning, Utah State University

Buckingham Shum, S. (Ed.) (2007). LabSpace e-learning and collaboration tools: Progress Report from Phase 1 (May 2006 – March 2007). Open Sensemaking Communities Project, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK. Acrobat documentAcrobat document

Buckingham Shum, S. (2006): An Introduction to Open Sensemaking Communities. Diaspora Knowledge Networks workshop, UNESCO International Migration Prog./LIMSI, Paris, Oct 2006. Acrobat document

Buckingham Shum, S. (2005), From Open Content Repositories to Open Sensemaking Communities. Conference on Open Educational Resources, Logan, Utah (Sept. 2005). Acrobat document PowerPoint version

The Open University (2005), The Open Content Initiative: Project Proposal to the Hewlett Foundation (Appendix K details the work to be undertaken in the OSC Project) Acrobat document

OpenLearn & Open Sensemaking Communities

Okada, A.; Buckingham Shum, S.; Bachler, M. Tomadaki, E., Scott, P., Little  A. and Eisenstadt, M. (2009, in press). Knowledge media tools to foster social learning. In: Hatzipanagos,S. and Warburton, S., Social Software and developing Community Ontology, Hershey PA: Information Science Reference IGI Global.

Okada, Alexandra and Tomadaki, Eleftheria and Buckingham Shum, Simon and Scott, Peter (2008) Fostering Open Sensemaking Communities by Combining Knowledge Maps and Videoconferencing. The European Journal for the Informatics Professional UPGRADE, 9 (3). pp. 27-36. ISSN 1684-5285 Acrobat document

Buckingham Shum, Simon and Okada, Alexandra (2008) Knowledge Cartography for Open Sensemaking Communities. JIME Journal of Interactive Media in Education (10). ISSN 1365-893X Acrobat document

Knowledge Mapping

Background sources:

Okada, A.; Buckingham Shum, S. and Sherborne,T. (Eds). Knowledge Cartography: software tools and mapping techniques, London:Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84800-148-0 [http://kmi.open.ac.uk/books/knowledge-cartography]

Kirschner, P.; Buckingham Shum, S. and Carr, C. (Eds.) Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense-Making. London: Springer-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 1-85233-6641-1 [www.VisualizingArgumentation.info]

Hypermedia Discourse Project, Knowledge Media Institute

Knowledge Mapping with Compendium:

Okada, Alexandra and Connolly, Teresa (2008) Designing Open Educational Resources through Knowledge Maps to enhance Meaningful learning. International Journal of Learning Technology, 15 (7). pp. 209-220. ISSN 1477-8386 Acrobat document

Okada, Alexandra and Buckingham Shum, Simon (2008) Evidence-Based Dialogue Maps as a research tool to evaluate the quality of school pupils’ scientific argumentation. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 31 (3). pp. 291-315. ISSN 1743-727X Acrobat document

Okada A. (2007). Technologies for Open Learning in Collaborative Communities. Proc. of Technology, Knowledge and Society Conference (TKS 2007), Cambridge University. January 2007.

Buckingham Shum, S. & Okada A.(2007). Knowledge Mapping for Open Sensemaking Communities. OpenLearn Conference, OU (Oct. 2007).Acrobat document

Okada, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2006). Knowledge Mapping With Compendium in Academic Research And Online Education. 22nd ICDE World Conference, 3-6 Sept. 2006, Rio de Janeiro [www.icde22.org.br] Acrobat document

Knowledge Mapping & Flashmeeting

Okada, A.; Tomadaki, E.; Buckingham Shum, S. & Scott. P. (2007). Combining Knowledge Mapping and Videoconferencing for Open Sensemaking Communities. Conference on Open Educational Resources, Logan, Utah (Sept. 2007).Acrobat document

Knowledge Mapping with prototypes from the preceding ScholOnto project—basis for the Knowledge Map Exchange:

Sereno, B., Buckingham Shum, S. and Motta, E. (2007). Formalization, User Strategy and Interaction Design: Users’ Behaviour with Discourse Tagging Semantics. Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge, 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), Banff, AB, Canada; 8-12 May 2007. [PrePrint: PDF]

Buckingham Shum, S.J., Uren, V., Li, G., Sereno, B. and Mancini, C. (2007). Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, (Special Issue on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Eds: C. Reed and F. Grasso, 22, (1), pp.17-47. [PrePrint: PDF]

Uren, V., Buckingham Shum, S.J., Li, G. and Bachler, M. (2006) Sensemaking Tools for Understanding Research Literatures: Design, Implementation and User Evaluation. Int. Jnl. Human Computer Studies, 64, (5), pp.420-445. [PrePrint: PDF]

Mancini, C. and Buckingham Shum, S.J. (2006). Modelling Discourse in Contested Domains: A Semiotic and Cognitive Framework. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 64, (11), pp.1154-1171. [PrePrint: PDF]

Social Software

Little, A., Denham, C., and Eisenstadt, M. (2008). MSG Instant Messenger: Social Presence and Location for the "Ad Hoc Learning Experience". Journal of Interactive Media in Education.

Zhu, J., L. Gonçalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Eisenstadt, M., Song, D., (2007) Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, Vol.5, 4, IOS Press.

Eisenstadt, M. OpenLearn, LabSpace, and ELeGI: New Social Software Tools to assist Open SenseMaking Communities. Keynote address at Informatica 2007, The 4th International Symposium on Tele-Education and Lifelong Learning (TelEduc 2007), Havana, Cuba, 12th-16th February, 2007.

Background source: Zhu, J.Eisenstadt, M., Goncalves, A., Denham, C.(2005). BuddyFinder-CORDER: Leveraging Social Networks for Matchmaking by Opportunistic Discovery. Proc. of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005) Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, November 7, 2005, Galway, Ireland

Peer to Peer Collaboration

Tomadaki, E., Quick, K.A. and Scott, P.J. (2008) "Videoconferencing in Open Learning". Accepted for publication at the Journal of Interactive Media in Education ISSN 1365-893X

Scott,P.; Tomadaki,E and Quick,K. (2007). The Shape of Live Online Meetings. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society (TKS).

Scott,P.; Quick,K; Tomadaki,E and Linney.J. (2007) Ambient Video-awareness for Building Working Communities. Proc. of Technology, Knowledge and Society Conference (TKS 2007), Cambridge University. January 2007.