Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence is highly distributed knowledge that results from the collaboration of large groups of people. Can be explicit (wikipedia) or implicit (search patterns)
Collective Intelligence can be achieved through Citizen Journalism, Community / Social / Collaborative Tagging, Social bookmarking (FURL, del.icio.us) and through Open Source Software.
Benefits of Collective Intelligence
- Help students research and self-study
- Help students practice the construction of knowledge through participation
- Research projects can benefit from search engines, media sharing sites, e-commerce sites (ie, the field of economics)
Examples of Collective Intelligence
3 sites that are at the center of data that is created by users
- Wikipedia.com
- Ebay.com
- Digg.com
Google.com and google zeitgeist use implicit CI by using what already exists
Specific educational examples:
- cooperativeresearch.org: History Commons - open content civic journalism site
- humanbraincloud.com: Game collecting word associations from “players” - creates visual map of results
