A few Friday afternoon thoughts about pheromones, information foraging, and the success of online communities brought on by reading a doctoral student’s proposal draft…
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My blogging mentor “Brian”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/ has put up a follow-on to my humble attempt at getting people up and running with blogs in the instructional technology community. Check out “Electric Boogaloo”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/archives/000091.html, which includes a link to “George”:http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/’s “list of ‘eduBloggers’”:http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/archives/000920.html. I’ve already noticed that I’m not doing a very good job following some of Brian’s suggestions… Time to step it up!
In the recent posts that have been going around about research on open source software communities, I haven’t seen anyone point to the motherlode yet.. “MIT’s Free / Open Source Research Community”:http://opensource.mit.edu/ It’s filled with good papers (including some graduate theses) about the how’s and why’s of the groups that make OSS work.
“An Introduction to Open Source Communities”:http://www.blueoxen.org/research/00007/ describes:
* What are the demographics of those who participate in these communities? Why do they join, and how long do they stay? How do they interact with each other?
* How do open source communities work? What are the patterns of collaboration within successful open source communities?
Spotted at “elearnspace”:http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/archives/000899.html
“H2O”:http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/index.jsp is a new discussion system out of Harvard that provides scaffolding that overcomes many of the traditional complaints about threaded discussion activities in formal courses. Now if only they supported scaffolds for arbitrary discourse grammars like “FLE3″:http://fle3.uiah.fi/ we could get somewhere…
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