The Collaboratory

Author : Katrin Muff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351285667

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The Collaboratory by Katrin Muff Pdf

The introduction is free to download here.This book is about empowering ordinary people to make a difference in the world. It explores the transformation that emerges when groups spread around the world working on similar issues discover synchronicities, often cross-pollinating, and collaborate rather than compete. A Collaboratory is a facilitated space where stakeholders meet to discuss burning societal issues. Each collaboratory is different and needs to be carefully designed to fit the context, ambition, purpose, stakeholders, culture, and space.Part 1 of the book sets the stage by explaining what a collaboratory is, where it emerges from, how it is defined and how it fits into the larger context of the social lab revolution that is happening all over the world.Part 2 of the book unpacks the many dimensions and considerations that contribute to the magic of a collaboratory experience. We offer nine unique insights and perspectives that need to be considered and form an integral part of a successful collaboratory.Part 3 offers eight inspiring examples of how a collaboratory could be applied. We look at applications in the educational field, within organizations, among institutions, and as movements.Part 4 offers a pragmatic outlook on how to get started if you want to use the Collaboratory in your own field of work. The book offers a narrative roadmap using a real-life example of a co-designed and co-created Collaboratory in Norway.Offering practical recommendations and benefits, and bringing together insights from a range of experienced academics, practitioners and facilitators, The Collaboratory is a handbook for experienced or aspiring practitioners in all fields of change: in society, in organizations of all kind and in the field of education.

Author : National Research Council,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee Toward a National Collaboratory: Establishing the User-Developer Partnership
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309048484

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National Collaboratories by National Research Council,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee Toward a National Collaboratory: Establishing the User-Developer Partnership Pdf

Computing and communications are becoming essential tools of science. Together, they make possible new kinds and degrees of collaboration. This book addresses technical, scientific, and social aspects of fostering scientific collaboration using information technology. It explores issues in molecular biology, oceanography, and space physics, and derives recommendations for a partnership between scientists and technologists to develop better collaboration technology to support science.

Author : Stephen H. Koslow,Michael F. Huerta
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135673970

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Electronic Collaboration in Science by Stephen H. Koslow,Michael F. Huerta Pdf

The increasingly sophisticated and powerful information technology we are creating plays an ever more prominent role in facilitating interaction and cooperation in everyday life. The time has come to harness it in the service of scientific research. This pathbreaking book describes the technical and social challenges and opportunities of electronic collaboration and offers specific examples of the ways in which it has not only facilitated but in some cases enabled work by scientists. Key players all, the chapter authors illuminate the general issues with their first-hand accounts. Very few researchers today can work in isolation. Electronic Collaboration in Science provides the first clear road map for all whose investigations are leading them into this fascinating new multidisciplinary domain.

Author : Brian A. Nejmeh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118319123

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Service-Learning in the Computer and Information Sciences by Brian A. Nejmeh Pdf

Offering a truly global perspective, this book serves as a road map for service-learning partnerships between information science and nonprofit organizations. It introduces for the first time an essential framework for service learning in CIS, addressing both the challenges and opportunities of this approach for all stakeholders involved: faculty, students, and community nonprofit organizations (NPOs), both domestic and abroad. This volume outlines numerous examples of successful programs from around the world, presenting practical working models for implementing joint projects between NPOs and academia.

Author : Brent Gayle Wilson
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0877782903

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Constructivist Learning Environments by Brent Gayle Wilson Pdf

Author : North Carolina Board of Science and Technology and National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309063401

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Collaboratories: Improving Research Capabilities in Chemical and Biomedical Sciences by North Carolina Board of Science and Technology and National Research Council Pdf

Author : John J. Burke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538108192

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Makerspaces by John J. Burke Pdf

Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition is an A–Z guidebook jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Learn what other libraries are making, building, and doing in their makerspaces and how you can, too. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies that will equip them with the knowledge to implement their own library makerspaces. This expanded second edition features eighteen brand new library makerspace profiles providing advice and inspiration for how to create your own library makerspace, over twenty new images and figures illustrating maker tools and trends as well as library makerspaces in action and new lists of actual grant and funding sources for library makerspaces.

Author : Anthony Mills
Publisher : Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780872634985

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Collaborative Engineering and the Internet by Anthony Mills Pdf

Via the Web. In manufacturing, new communication technologies have ushered in a new era for the team-based product development strategy of concurrent engineering. Known as collaborative engineering, the new phase makes it unnecessary for team members to be in the same room. seated around the same table. The team members can be scattered around the facility, around the city, around the country, and even around the world, and can still contribute their valuable input. More complex than traditional concurrent engineering, collaborative engineering not only deals with collaboration itself, but also the infrastructure and environments that enable and nurture it. Going far beyond describing the use of the internet, Anthony Mills thoroughly examines the principles, applications and various tools relevant to this new age of industrial communications. He explains how an organization can use them effectively in welding together personnel and suppliers - no matter how far flung - so that they can play major roles in the organization's success.

Author : Steve Kempster,Arthur F. Turner,Gareth Edwards
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785369919

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Field Guide to Leadership Development by Steve Kempster,Arthur F. Turner,Gareth Edwards Pdf

This Field Guide offers a rich variety of academic approaches to facilitate leadership development in adults. It is an invaluable resource, giving insightful worked examples linked to theory and reflective commentary. The extensive experiences of world leading exponents of leadership development are distilled into practical application for immediate use.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Communication in science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063994366

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Towards a National Collaboratory by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Chemical Sciences Roundtable
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780309184021

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Impact of Advances in Computing and Communications Technologies on Chemical Science and Technology by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Chemical Sciences Roundtable Pdf

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable provides a forum for discussing chemically related issues affecting government, industry and government. The goal is to strengthen the chemical sciences by foster communication among all the important stakeholders. At a recent Roundtable meeting, information technology was identified as an issue of increasing importance to all sectors of the chemical enterprise. This book is the result of a workshop convened to explore this topic.

Author : Charlene N. Simser,Michael A. Somers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000526219

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Experimentation and Collaboration by Charlene N. Simser,Michael A. Somers Pdf

Experimentation and Collaboration: Creating Serials for a New Millennium will help you see the current direction of serials collection, development, creation, and production as we travel with the electronic age into the dawn of the next millennium. You'll get instant access to the many ways in which traditional boundaries between academic libraries and computer services are dissolving, and you'll see the new sense of egalitarianism that's enhancing scholarship and scholarly communication as the next thousand years approaches. In Experimentation and Collaboration, you'll be transported instantly to all the best NASIG plenary, project, and issues sessions and workshops you might have missed, such as: surviving scholarhip in the 21st Century building a national electronic collection for long-term access creating an electronic archive understanding initiatives in Internet cataloging finding innovations in journal access surmounting the challenges of managing and delivering e-journals drumming up motivation for staff in changing times handling copyright issues and Web publishing Overall, the 12th Annual NASIG Conference was a grand affair, bringing over 600 publishers, vendors, and librarians to Ann Arbor from America, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Great Britain, Germany, and Australia. Experimentation and Collaboration gives you the full range of acitivites at this important conference and ensures that you'll be able to collaborate on, experiment with, and create new serials with the rest of the scholarly world as we begin a new electronic era of information provision, serials publishing, and library science.

Author : Hilary Bradbury
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473927247

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The SAGE Handbook of Action Research by Hilary Bradbury Pdf

The third edition of The SAGE Handbook of Action Research presents an updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded ‘skills’ section which includes new consultant-relevant materials. Building on the strength of the previous landmark editions, Hilary Bradbury has carefully developed this edition to ensure it follows in their footsteps by mapping the current state of the discipline, as well as looking to the future of the field and exploring the issues at the cutting edge of the action research paradigm today. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, healthcare, international development, new media, organizational research and education.

Author : Abdelnour-Nocera, José
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466621527

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Knowledge and Technological Development Effects on Organizational and Social Structures by Abdelnour-Nocera, José Pdf

As the growing relationship between individuals and technology continue to play a vital role in our society and work place, the progress and execution of information technology communication systems is important in maintaining our current way of life. Knowledge and Technological Development Effects on Organizational and Social Structures provides a wide ranging discussion on the exchanging of research ideas and practices in an effort to bring together the social and technical aspects within organizations and society. This collection focuses on new ideas and studies for research, students, and practitioners.

Author : Vanessa Svihla,RICHARD REEVE
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317486299

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Design as Scholarship by Vanessa Svihla,RICHARD REEVE Pdf

For researchers in the Learning Sciences, there is a lack of literature on current design practices and its many obstacles. Design as Scholarship in the Learning Sciences is an informative resource that addresses this need by providing, through a robust collection of case studies, instructive reference points and important principles for more successful projects. Drawing from the reflections of diverse practitioners, this text includes response sections that guide readers in understanding the research in the context of their own work. It touches upon educational technologies, community co-design, and more, and is grounded in the critical analysis of experts seeking to grow the community.