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“laboratories without walls”

“laboratories without walls”. Collaboratories The online professional communities of learning. The Plan. Review of this week’s readings 3 field trips to local collaboratories Introduction to the Activity! 45 minutes to spend on the Activity! Take a short break.

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“laboratories without walls”

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  1. “laboratories without walls” Collaboratories The online professional communities of learning.

  2. The Plan • Review of this week’s readings • 3 field trips to local collaboratories • Introduction to the Activity! • 45 minutes to spend on the Activity! • Take a short break. • Regroup to share and compare. • Debrief.

  3. Collabatories Finholt Scientific Collaborations at a Distance Teasley & Wolinsky Collaboratories are a form of Internet mediated science where scientists are connected to each other, to instruments, and to data independent of time and location

  4. Collabatories Finholt Scientific Collaborations at a Distance Teasley & Wolinsky Collaboratories seek to address these issues: • convenient access to scarce instruments, specialized equipment and unique datasets • common work setting to support interaction among geographically distributed collaborators • resources and mechanisms to support large-scale projects or “big science” (Weinberg, 1961) • inclusion of non-elite scientists in collaborations

  5. Collabatories Finholt Scientific Collaborations at a Distance Teasley & Wolinsky Issues faced in collaboratory settings: • technology access issues: platform, network, complexity • competition among collaboratory members and fear of being anticipated, or scooped, by others—also IP issues • fear of work load increase for sites hosting instruments(unfounded in some cases, EMSLC) • local participants may resent the invasion of remote participants • lead scientists may withdraw from collaboratory interactions, leaving the collaboratory without central leadership • measures to determine return of investment of time & resources

  6. Collabatories Finholt Scientific Collaborations at a Distance Teasley & Wolinsky Technology challenges of distributed collaboration: • entry barriers to technology-based environments • construction of shared attention • knowing who is who in a shared interaction • turn-taking mechanisms • broadcast orientation versus joint work • DYSWIS

  7. Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communitiesBringelson & Carey • Deliberately designed environments (as opposed to organically evolved) • Both designed as meeting places for community learning • Ad-free, business-free • Tapped In • Educators • TeleCHI • Human-computer interaction professionals

  8. Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communitiesBringelson & Carey • Deliberately designed environments (as opposed to organically evolved) • Both designed as meeting places for community learning • Ad-free, business-free • Tapped In • Educators • TeleCHI • Human-computer interaction professionals

  9. Tapped In Work schedule (short day, home in evenings) Seasonality (school year) Tech knowledge low Campus-type interface Synchronous seminar-type events “Greeters” to draw visitors “Rooms” sponsored by other organizations TeleCHI Work schedule (longer hours, brief clear windows Participation is event-oriented Tech knowledge high Events-focused interface Events to promote interactions between graduate students and practitioners Regular events to draw visitors Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communitiesBringelson & Carey Design factors

  10. Previous exposure to tech Access to new/developing tech Time and rhythm of access to the venue Breadth and depth of the community Sustainability of interactions Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communitiesBringelson & Carey Member Characteristics to Consider RAMP Model • Work Roles • Tech Artifacts • Metrics for success • Supporting changes in Process

  11. Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communitiesBringelson & Carey On-line communities: helping them form and grow • “All communities…must engage and involve members.” • “A community is a group of people who are willing and able to help one another. In this sense, community is more than a way a group of people defines itself: it is a capability that can be developed and improved over time.”

  12. Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communitiesBringelson & Carey What Works? • Invest in the means, not the ends • Focus relentlessly on the needs of members • Resist the temptation to control • Don’t assume the community will become self-sustaining (create support infrastructure) • Consider environmental factors • “More than one OLC manager observed that introverts and extroverts adapted very differently to the online tools” • Extend community-building beyond the discussion space • Seek out and support members who take on informal roles • Roles tend to remain constant within community, regardless of the individual filling them.

  13. Measuring the success of an online community – Joseph Cothrel • Why are ROI calculations not done? • Concerns about attaching dollar values to human relationships • Fear that calculating ROI for community efforts is impossible • 3 principles to measuring success: • Define business objectives/how will success be measured • Ongoing measurement and reporting on performance • Use measures to make fact-based decisions to improve community over time

  14. Measuring the success of an online community – Joseph Cothrel • Community ROI • Incremental value: value created for a business by the presence of an online community; could be money, employee satisfaction, product development cycle times • Conversion rate: rate at which community results in desired action; e.g. buy a product • Community member: member-to-member interaction; affect decisions by referrals; provide targeted market

  15. 3 field trips to local collaboratories • Science, Physics, Aironomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC)http://www.windows.ucar.edu/SPARC • Bug Scopehttp://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/ • The Collaboratory for Community Support http://comnet.org/collaboratorycs/

  16. ActivityPlan a Collaboratory in only 45 minutes! Each of these areas represents a bit of description of a group and their presumed practices. Please feel to invent the details that will assist you in answering the questions that follow. Research Groups: • Competitive Science Collaboratory • K-12: Kids are research scientists too!http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/ • SOCIAL POLICY: altruistic, socially minded, non-profit http://comnet.org/collaboratorycs/

  17. ActivityTell us about your Collaboratory: • What sort of “laboratory without walls” will you form for your group of researchers? • How will you recruit people to participate? • How will you retain people, interest and funding? • How will you measure the success of your collaboratory? • How do you differentiate your collaboratory from a research data base?

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