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[5 enlaces] [5links]: Facebook, Andrew McAfee, mlearning, wikimedia argentina y Educalibre chile

agosto 30, 2007

1) Crowdsourcing Reaches Facebook Users in First Collaborative Online Course: en emedia wire.

A new online course is being offered for Facebook users, but it is not being taught by a single instructor. Instead, the course is being created by Facebook users themselves through a collaborative process known as «crowdsourcing.» The class is being conducted through Podclass.com, a new online learning website that is on the cutting edge of social media and Web 2.0 trends.

2) The Great Decoupling en Andrew McAfee.

Malone draws pictures like the ones below to show what happens over time as information costs go down (I’ll use the broader term ‘information costs’ to emphasize that it’s not just communication costs that decline sharply over time.). Centralization first increases as information collection and transmission become feasible for the first time, then decreases as costs do. Centralization is eventually replaced by lateralization:

Future of Work diagrams

3) mLearning – FREE Webinar – Great Quotes en Corporate elearning


August is mLearning Month! At least is was for me and Guild Research. Okay, it actually goes further back into July, and probably June. But since The eLearning Guild released the report in August, I’m stickin’ with August as being all about mLearning.

4) Nace capítulo argentino de WikiMedia como organización social

El sábado 1 de septiembre, de 14 a 18 en la sede de la Confederación Nacional de Docentes Universitarios (Conadu), Pasco 255, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, se realizará el lanzamiento y la constitución de la Asociación Civil Wikimedia Argentina, entidad que trabajará en conjunto con Wikimedia Foundation,

5) Ministro de Economía cita a Educalibre

Señores EducaLibre,

Por medio de la presente me permito invitar a dos (2) representantes de EducaLibre a una reunión con este Ministro y otros representantes de la sociedad civil, con el objeto de intercambiar ideas frente al diseño de una Estrategia Digital para Chile y los aportes que dicho movimiento pueda realizar a su diseño. La reunión se realizará el día 13/09/2007 a las 12:00 en dependencias del ministerio (Teatinos 120, Piso 10). Solicito puedan confirmar asistencia y nombres de las personas que asistirían por este mismo medio.

Saluda atentamente,

Alejandro Ferreiro
Ministro de Economía


Fuente: [varias]

HBS Case on Wikipedia : Karim Lakhani y Andrew McAfee

febrero 22, 2007

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Karim Lakhani y Andrew McAfee

Como hace mucho que no hablamos de wikis, aquí tenéis hoy dos enlaces sobre el «caso wikipedia»: HBS Case on Wikipedia y Wikipedia (B); extraídos de AndrewMcAfee:
«My colleague Karim Lakhani and I have just finished the first Harvard Business School case on Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia itself, this case is available for free online and published under the GFDL.

It’s focal point is the articles for deletion process on Wikipedia’s «Enterprise 2.0» article, but I’ll use this focal point and the other information in the case for a much broader classroom discussion. Using this case, I’ll talk with students about:

  • Why Nupedia (Wikipedia’s more formal predecessor) failed to gather momentum, and why Wikipedia has gathered so much.
  • Whether Wikipedia’s highly egalitarian and freeform editing processes and policies yield good results and, if so, how this happens.
  • How decision rights are allocated in Wikipedia.»(leer más…)

Fuente: [ Andrew McAfee ]

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