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Kerala Libraries Network (KELNET): a Proposal
Visualizes the conceptual framework and propose the
development of a Kerala Library Network (KELNET) by exploring and exploiting the available and the existing social infrastructures, social softwares, open standards and
technologies
Integrating Mobile Web 2.0 within tertiary education
Based on three years of innovative pedagogical development and guided by a participatory action research
methodology, this paper outlines an approach to integrating mobile web 2.0 within a tertiary education
course, based on a social constructivist pedagogy. The goal is to facilitate a student-centred, collaborative,
flexible, context-bridging learning environment that empowers students as content producers and learning
context generators, guided by lecturers who effectively model the use of the technology. We illustrate how
the introduction of mobile web 2.0 has disrupted the underlying pedagogy of the course from a traditional
Attelier model (face-to-face apprenticeship model), and has been successfully transformed into a context
independent social constructivist model. Two mobile web 2.0 learning scenarios are outlined, including; a
sustainable house design project (involving the collaboration of four departments in three faculties and three
diverse groups of students), and the implementation of a weekly ‘nomadic studio session'. Students and
lecturers use the latest generation of smartphones to collaborate, communicate, capture and share critical and
reflective learning events. Students and lecturers use mobile friendly web 2.0 tools to create this
environment, including: blogs, social networks, location aware (geotagged) image and video sharing, instant
messaging, microblogging etc… Feedback from students and lecturers has been extremely positive
A GeoSocial Intelligence Framework for Studying & Promoting Resilience to Seasonal Flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia
PetaJakarta.org is a web-based platform developed to harness the power of social media to gather, sort, and
display information about flooding for Jakarta residents in real time. The platform runs on the open source software
CogniCity—an OSS platform developed by the SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong—which
allows data to be collected and disseminated by community members through their location-enabled mobile
devices. The project uses a GeoSocial Intelligence Framework to approach the complexity of Jakarta’s entangled
hydraulic, hydrological and meteorological systems and thereby converts the noise of social media into knowledge
about urban infrastructure and situational conditions related to flooding and inundation.
In this paper, PetaJakarta.org co-directors Dr Tomas Holderness, Geomatics Research Fellow at the SMART
Infrastructure Facility, Dr Etienne Turpin, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure
Facility, and Dr Rohan Wickramasuriyam, GIS Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure Facility, will discuss
their GeoSocial Intelligence Framework as it applies to their current research in Jakarta. They will also present their
preliminary findings from their 2014 Twitter #DataGrant, which has allowed them to develop a correlative analysis
between historic social media information, the Jakarta government’s flood maps, and the infrastructure used to
manage critical flood emergencies. Finally, they will speculate on several future applications of the CogniCity OSS
and suggest how it might be developed to further promote an integrated civic co-management platform with the
support of business, industry, government and community organizations
5th Annual Progress Reporting and Coordination Meeting on CCAFS Projects and Regional Activities in Southeast Asia
The proceedings document the results of the 5th Annual Progress Reporting and Coordination Meeting on CCAFS Projects and Regional Activities in Southeast Asia. The report tackles the progress of activities in the CSV sites and on CCAFS project implementation in 2019; the significant outputs and outcomes of FP/CSV implementation; and the knowledge, learning, and experiences across projects
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The OER FLOW and social media
This presentation introduces some strategies for producing, sharing and reusing OER through the OER Flow and social media. The aim of this investigation is to identify how colearners can apply the OER Flow and social media to make the production and adaptation processes of OER more explicit for anyone in the community to contribute. This work analyses, therefore, the interactions of “COLEARN” – an open community of research in collaborative learning technologies – who created and remixed diverse open media components for producing an open book about OER using the OER flow and Social Media. The outcomes show that educators and colearners can move from a passive position to a more active and informed network role when they are able to co-authoring OER
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