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Evidence-Hub.net rollout

Simon Buckingham Shum, Friday 10 Aug 2012

As part of our Collective Intelligence R&D, for the last few months we’ve been developing the concept of an Evidence Hub, learning user experience lessons from the first example we developed for the Hewlett Foundation on the Open Learning Network project, generifying the shell into one that can be customized for the different communities who have been excited by the concept, and moving to an open source release shortly.

For info and demos go to Evidence-Hub.net

If you want to read more about the rationale behind the Hub’s design, check out:

De Liddo, Anna; Buckingham Shum, Simon; McAndrew, Patrick and Farrow, Robert (2012). The open education evidence hub: a collective intelligence tool for evidence based policy. Presented at Cambridge 2012: Joint OER12 and OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2012 Conference, 16-18 April 2012, Cambridge, UK. Eprint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/33253

To learn more about the underlying concept of Contested Collective Intelligence, and how this can be supported through human annotation such as this, combined with machine annotation, check out:

De Liddo, Anna; Sandor, Agnes and Buckingham Shum, Simon (2012). Contested Collective Intelligence: rationale, technologies, and a human-machine annotation study. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 21(4-5), pp. 417-448. Eprint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/31052