Education
Toward a multi-level knowledge building innovation network
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract
Knowledge building requires collaborative bootstrapping, with participants at all levels of the education system part of a collective effort to go beyond information exchange to innovation-producing networks that demonstrate that education can operate as a knowledge creating enterprise. Organizational theories and research are increasingly focused on multilevel perspectives for creating actionable knowledge; the challenge is to take advantage of emergence to self-organize around solutions and new means. By “innovation networks” we mean networks that go beyond sharing and discussion to the actual creation of new knowledge and innovations. Self-organization and emergence surround us, all the time and at multiple levels, whether we are aware or not. However, self-organization around idea improvement is rare and requires engaging innovative capacity at all levels, a research-intensive enterprise surrounding innovations, and an open source engineering team committed to enabling new forms of interaction, media, and analytic tools. “Multi-level” envisions inclusion of students, teachers, administrators, researchers, engineers, and policy makers in a collaborative enterprise. This session takes the form of a design think tank to advance conceptual frameworks and means for new and more powerful environments to support a multi-level knowledge building innovation network.
Publication Title
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
Publication Date
2017
Volume
2
First Page
703
Last Page
710
ISSN
1573-4552
ISBN
9780990355021
Keywords
collaborative enterprise, conceptual frameworks, information exchanges, innovation network, innovative capacity, knowledge building, organizational theory, self organizations
Repository Citation
Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl; Laferrière, Thérèse; Bielaczyc, Katerine; Chai, Shaoming; Chan, Carol K.K.; Chen, Bodong; Chen, Mei Hwa; De Jong, Frank; Del Castillo, Fernando Diaz; Hakkarainen, Kai; Matsuzawa, Yoshiaki; McAuley, Alexander; Montané, Mireia; Nunes, Cesar; Reeve, Richard; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Oshima, Jun; Shirouzu, Hajime; Tan, Seng Chee; Teo, Chew Lee; Aalst, Jan Van; Vinha, Telma; and Zhang, Jianwei, "Toward a multi-level knowledge building innovation network" (2017). Education. 16.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_education/16