Adaptive Institutions working across Collaborative Networks
This blog is used to provide information about the views of Fred Garnett and Nigel Ecclesfield on educational institutions, systems and policy in our Post-Web 2.0 world. It addresses the institutional issues raised by the Open Context Model of Learning. It will develop the ideas initially presented in “e-learning and Public Value” (eLit 06), then in Policy 2.0 at CAL 07 and most significantly in “Towards An Organisational Architecture of Participation” in BJET 39/3. An “organisational Architecture of Participation” is one which is not only e-mature, or e-learning ready, but is organised dialogically with MIS information, created by practitioners enabling strategic decisions; effectively a real-time inspection process delivered by the work-force with all information in the public domain. We started this process with a blog post based on our presentation at iPED 2009, now on Slideshare.
We are currently blogging on (networked) Public Value, given Clay Shirky’s interest in this (Cognitive Surplus), and on Sustaining Innovation using the “Policy Forest” technique we developed, which we think are a form of crowd-sourcing policy. We have developed this dialogic policy model with Curated Conversations on Innovation – basically a research conferences in an hour.
The blog post, Public Value 2011, pulled together what we have learnt since 2006 in developing our ideas about the participatory organisations necessary for developing networked society by using an approach based on (networked) Public Value. We also ran a development group at Becta of 15 Colleges called EMFFE (E-Maturity Framework for Further Education) which informed our BJET paper Nigel Ecclesfield summarised this approach, provides a critique of current useage and then proposes a future agenda; a networked Public Value, participatory audit practices, a Pattern Language. He will be doing this as a WikiQuals doctorate and you can follow that aspect on his WikiQuals page. Nigel has a new update on Public Value 2013 as part of his WikiQuals work, and he is writing a response to the UK Francis report on the failure of managerialism in UK NHS hospitals.
We have blogged on the JISC online conference on Innovating elearning and have updated the blog posts on the morning of November 28th 2009 in response to emerging issues. If you want us to answer stuff, or address other issues that you have, then just post them as a comment on the blog.
We are looking to develop an “indicator” model providing a toolkit for institutions so that they can become “Adaptive Institutions working across Collaborative Networks”.
We are currently working with Wikipedia (WikimediaUK) and DEMOS on their #WikiPolitics project (LKL Workshop January 2014)
I’m trying to get in touch with Nigel Ecclesfield (if he’s the same person who used to work at Becta), with a view to asking him to be a referee for me.
Would you please ask him to email me at nduin@nancyduin.net?
TIA
Albest.
Nancy Duin
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