Research activities in L3D have postulated for a long time that socio-technical environments should be considered as open and evolvable living systems. The SER model has been a useful theoretical construct to characterize such systems and address ideas of meta-design and social creativity. The talk will propose a distilled summary of the lessons learned through different L3D research projects, and open up the discussion to consider how a refined understanding of the SER process might apply to web 2.0 environments as well as course information environments in education. The talk is designed to elicit discussion between participants in the meeting.
Background Information:
dePaula, R., Fischer, G., & Ostwald, J. (2001) "Courses as Seeds:
Expectations and Realities," Proceedings of the Second European Conference
on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (Euro-CSCL' 2001), Maastricht,
Netherlands, pp. 494-501.
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ecscl2001.pdf
Fischer, G., & Ostwald, J. (2002) "Seeding, Evolutionary Growth,
and Reseeding: Enriching Participatory Design with Informed Participation," Proceedings
of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'02), Malmö University, Sweden,
pp. 135-143.
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/pdc2002-ser.pdf
Fogli, D. & Giaccardi, E. "Make It Flourish! Designing for Participative Software Systems" (under revision for publication in IJHCI).