Blogs, wikis and creative innovation

Increased Content Accessibility For Wikis And Blogs

This paper aims to introduce a useful approach on the combined use of template based publishing tools (i.e. for blogs and wikis) and content personalization services. The approach considers that the original developers of web content have limited awareness on accessibility issues, and they are facilitated and guided by the editing interface. The publishing mechanism is responsible for storing w...

Wikis and Blogs in E-Learning Context

Teaching with wikis and blogs: Potentials and pitfalls

The use of wikis and blogs within higher education and continuing professional development is becoming increasingly popular. On the face of it, these tools seem ideal for facilitating learnercentered activities based on the production of material by the learner himor herself, potentially drawing on different contexts of learning in and across school settings. Over the last few years, a number o...

Hochschule 2.0: Wikis und Blogs im Lehreinsatz. Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Wikis, Blogs und soziale Netze sind in wenigen Jahren von Randerscheinungen des Internet zu Motoren des Web 2.0 aufgestiegen. Die für die heutige Studentenschaft zunehmend selbstverständlichen Kommunikationsmittel können mit Gewinn in der Hochschulausbildung eingesetzt werden. Dabei muß den Eigenheiten dieser Medien aber besondere Beachtung geschenkt werden und eine sehr präzise Passung zwische...

Modelling Creative Innovation

The economic concept of rationality seems inappropriate in the context of creative innovation, because of its assumption that the tastes and preferences of agents are fixed. The concept of copying, of imitating the behaviour of others, has equal claim to the description 'rational' in an innovative context. Models of ‘binary choices with externalities’ are predicated on copying and potentially s...