Discussions & Collaboration

in Economic & Business Geography Classes

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/resources/collaboration.html)

Supplementary Resources:

• Innovative Education Sites
• Distance Education & Distributed Learning
• Online Collaboration & Discussions
• Hypertext/ media - Bibliography

Class members whose collaboration partners, once identified, are unable to complete the class or become non-communicative for extended periods of time will NOT be accountable for (non-)collaboration!

• Geography 207 / Current

• Geography 207 / Wi 1999
  1. Geography 207 / Wi 1999
  2. Geography 207 / Wi 1999
  3. Geography 207 / Wi 1999
  4. Geography 207 / Wi 1999

• Participate -- Communicate -- Pontificate: Geog 350 & 498: Collaborative Online Discussion, Fall Quarter 1997
• Geography 207 (Winter 1997) Communication & Collaboration (On-Line Discussions)
• Three-Stage Discussion on Internet Use in Geography 207 / 1995
• Collaboration Matrix (Geog 498)
• Daily Life in Educational Cyber Space (Virtual Debate: May, 1996 in Geog.350)
• Geography 450 / Fall 1999
• Discussion in Geography 450, Fall 1996 [Topic: cyberspace]

Other Collaborative Web Efforts:

• Worldwide Universities Network (WWUN)

  Members of the new alliance, provisionally entitled Worldwide Universities Network (WWUN), are Sheffield, Southampton and York universities in the UK and California (at San Diego), Pennsylvania State, Washington (at Seattle) and Wisconsin-Madison universities in the US.The universities have agreed to collaborate initially on research, postgraduate degree programmes and continuing professional development. They plan to produce common courseware, establish joint PhD supervision and develop common benchmarking standards.
  The Vice-Chancellors are Professor Alan Wilson from University of Leeds, Professor Sir Gareth Roberts from University of Sheffield, Professor Howard Newby from University of Southampton, Professor Ron Cooke from University of York. The alliance has already set up an office in Sheffield.

  • Press Release (Feb. 2000)
  • Some Background

    University Vice-Chancellor Alan Wilson said: "The alliance has far-reaching consequences for the delivery of higher education in the emerging global market. Together we can develop and sustain learning materials of the highest international standards, and extend opportunities for all our students and staff."

  • Overview for Leeds

• Research Channel [UW]

  The ResearchChannel (formerly ResearchTV) was founded by a core group of research universities and corporate research divisions dedicated to broadening the access to and appreciation of our individual and collective activities, ideas, and opportunities in basic and applied research.
  Originating in 1997, ResearchChannel participants began plans to develop projects with the goal of facilitating new methods of national and international communication about research information for use interinstitutionally and for the public.

• http://www.linkresearch.org/ "LINK allows community-based organizations to post research projects and enables researchers to find meaningful research topics... During its pilot phase, LINK is marketing and evaluating its service in three primary metropolitan areas: New York City, Greater Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area (Jan 2000)."

• The Nupedia encyclopedia

  is a public endeavor; its articles will be publicly accessible and distributable in accordance with our open content license, and it will be constructed by qualified members of the international public.

• the global change SysTem for Analysis Research and Training START MISSION: To develop a system of regional networks of collaborating scientists and institutions: to conduct research on regional aspects of global change to assess the causes and impacts of regional global change, and to provide relevant information to policy makers and governments
• Dynamic, Extensible and Integrated Information Spaces "Dynasites is part of a research agenda investigating computational support for collaborative working and learning. One of the theoretical foundations for Dynasites is Collaborative Knowledge Construction, which postulates that information spaces supporting collaborative work and learning should grow and be shaped over time by the people who use them."
  • Theory: Knowledge Construction || Jonathan Ostwald [post-doctoral research fellow in the Center for Lifelong Learning & Design of the Computer Science Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder] "This thesis began with a discussion of knowledge-intensive domains. In these domains workers solve ill-defined problems and learn as they work. Based on a theory of cooperative problem solving systems, I argued that computational support for knowledge intensive domains should take the form of domain-oriented objects and knowledge delivery."
• Collaboration in Scientific Research: Charlie Hendricksen's Home
• The Cyburbia Cafe (PAIRC/Buffalo) "The Cyburbia Cafe is a virtual gathering place for all those who are interested in planning, architecture and any aspect of the built environment to get together and discuss what's on their mind."
• Collabortion Gets Creative Juices Flowing ; College of the Atlantic
• HyperNews
• NetForum "is a Web based discussion forum system developed by the University of Wisconsin Biomedical Computing Group. The program is written in Perl... NetForum is available under the terms of the License that is distributed with the package. NetForum is copyrighted by the University of Wisconsin."
• Knowledge Assessment (Pacific Islands) August 1997 On-Line Conference: Technical Panel and Public Forum
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Resource Collection "NetGain is a new program offered by INFOMINE that encourages cooperating faculty, staff and students to share Internet resources which they find important for their work on their campuses as well as with the UC and greater research and educational community."
• Nicenet
  • NICENET INTRODUCES THE INTERNET CLASSROOM ASSISTANT [Free communication tool for classrooms, distance learning programs and collaborative academic projects]
  • Nicenet is a non-profit organization of Internet professionals who give their time to provide services to the Internet community. Everything in Nicenet is offered free for public use, and Nicenet makes no profits from your participation.

• Giving your comment on a WEP issue [Wageningen Economic Papers]

• Collaborative Information Filtering [Berkeley]

Collaboration Guides:

How to Design a Successful Project [1995 Yvonne Andres & Al Rogers]

Literature:

Andres, Yvonne & Al Rogers How to Design a Successful Project (c) 1995 [This article is based on "Telecommunications In The Classroom: Keys to Successful Telecomputing," first published in the Computing Teacher in 1990.]

Bentley, R.; W. Appelt, U. Busbach, E. Hinrichs, D. Kerr, K. Sikkel, J. Trevor, G. Woetzel, Basic Support for Cooperative Work on the World Wide Web, In: International Journal of Human Computer Studies: Special issue on Novel Applications of the WWW, Spring 1997, Academic Press, Cambridge.

Gray, Barbara. Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems. Jossey-Bass, 1989. [HD30.29 G73 1989/ BA Lib]

Hendricksen, Charles. 1998a. Using DocReview as a Universal Commenting Facility for WWW Documents. http://students.washington.edu/~veritas/DocReview/UCF/basedoc.html. January 1, 1998.

---------------. 1998b. Using DocReview to Collaborate on a Large Document. http://students.washington.edu/~veritas/DocReview/BigDoc/basedoc.html. January 1, 1998.

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Murray Turoff. 1993. The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer. MIT Press. Cambridge.

Maienschein, Jane. 1993. Why Collaborate? Journal of the History of Biology. Vol. 26, No. 2. Summer 1993, 167-183.

Lynne Ronesi, WRITING STRATEGIES: COLLABORATION [Last updated - November 23, 1996]

Schrage, Michael. 1990. Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration. Random House. New York. [Suzzallo General Stacks: P90 .S363 1990]

Wooley, David R. 1997. Conferencing on the World Wide Web. (http://freenet.msp.mn.us/~drwool//webconf.html).