Data-intensive Scientific Discovery
It seems worth mentioning a book, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-intensive Scientific Discovery, found here. The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its...
View ArticleSkeptic Arguments and What the Science Says
Today, I uploaded an issue map to the Compendium maps section of the Open University’s moodle website. The issue map was created with the kind permission of John Cook, owner of skepticalscience.com,...
View ArticleTowards a research corpus
In my thesis proposal, I outline an approach to the federation of structured conversations. On the surface, federation means combining representations of topics that are about the same topic. The...
View ArticleOnline games that matter
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) teamed with the Myelin Repair Foundation, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to host a game with this title: How would you advise the President to reinvent...
View ArticleA first look at an MRF game move
In my previous post on online games that matter, I described the Myelin Repair Foundation’s research game. That game was mounted in concert with Justine Lam and the Institute for the Future, and was...
View ArticleCCK11 Thinking about connectivism
I am sitting in on a MOOC (massive online open course–seriously cool!) about connectivism. The term itself caught my eye, though I had to spend some time disambiguating it with “connectionist”...
View ArticleMRF Game Results Posted
The Myelin Repair Foundation game on which I reported here and here is now discussed at the Robert Wood Johnson website. The 30 page pdf is found here. The report opens with this: On October 7–8, and...
View ArticleIBIS meets MediaWiki
Some slides are now online at slideshare which are drawn from training materials for the Bloomer project which is a component in the collective intelligence platform being installed in some Millennium...
View ArticleIBIS meets medical research
My thesis research calls for collecting IBIS documents to study and, perhaps, to merge. I’ve been collecting IBIS conversations about climate change, one from Debategraph, two provided by MIT, and one...
View ArticleMy New Blog
My blogging is now moving. The new proxy for my work is found at http://knowledgegardens.wordpress.com/ Give me a while to get it set up!
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