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Collaboration is essential to a successful society, and is becoming even more exciting as we develop tools for more efficient global communication

Edudemic | Education Technology, Apps, Product Reviews, and Social Media. Www.thevenusproject.com/downloads/ebooks/Buckminister Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.pdf. Pod : fora » index. PHYLO: THE TRADING CARD GAME. Khan Academy. OpenLearn - The Open University. Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. LearningSpace - The Open University.

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature | CosmoLearning Philosophy. Philosophy | Video Courses on Academic Earth. Philosophers consider the big picture and the minutiae of the human experience – where do we come from? What is the purpose of life? What kinds of fallacies and arguments can be made about scenarios within various aspects of society – church, government, medical care, and legal processes? Philosophy majors grapple with these issues on a daily basis, applying various philosophical schools of thought to these situations to explore issues from multiple angles.

And as philosophy majors, students will be expected to collaborate across disciplines with some regularity. Sample Courses Philosophy undergraduates will usually start out with courses that cover the fundamental schools of thought proposed by philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, and Hegel. Possible Specializations Philosophy isn’t just the study of historical systems of thought.

Degree Types Prospective philosophy majors can explore degree types ranging from the associate to Ph.D. level. Associate Ph.D. Collaboration. Act of working together Catalan castellers collaborate, working together with a shared goal. Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal.[1] Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership,[vague] although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.[2] Teams that work collaboratively often access greater resources, recognition and rewards when facing competition for finite resources.[3] Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication.[2] Such methods aim to increase the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem-solving.

Collaboration is present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common use of the term. Examples[edit] Trade[edit] Kibbutz (1890)[edit] Game theory[edit] Commons-based peer production. The term is often used interchangeably with the term social production. Overview[edit] The history of commons-based peer production communities (by the P2Pvalue project) Benkler contrasts commons-based peer production with firm production, in which tasks are delegated based on a central decision-making process, and market-based production, in which allocating different prices to different tasks serves as an incentive to anyone interested in performing a task.

Benkler first introduced the term in his 2002 paper "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm",[6] whose title refers to the Linux mascot and to Ronald Coase, who originated the transaction costs theory of the firm that provides the methodological template for the paper's analysis of peer production. The paper cites Eben Moglen as the originator of the concept.[6] In his book The Wealth of Networks (2006), Benkler significantly expands on his definition of commons-based peer production. Principles[edit] Examples[edit]

Intentional community. Characteristics[edit] Purpose[edit] The purposes of intentional communities vary in different communities. They may include sharing resources, creating family-oriented neighborhoods and living ecologically sustainable lifestyles (ecovillages). Many intentional communities focus on the importance of living and sharing life together, as opposed to the perceived trend of independence in Western culture. Types of communities[edit] Some communities are secular; others have a spiritual basis. Some communities provide services to disadvantaged populations, for example, war refugees, the homeless, or people with developmental disabilities. Types of memberships[edit] Many communities have different types or levels of membership. Christian intentional communities are usually composed of those wanting to emulate the practices of the earliest believers. Type of governance[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] External links[edit]

Society: Lifestyle Choices: Intentional Communities. Intentional Communities - ecovillages, communes, cohousing, coops. Utopian socialism. Utopian socialism is a term used to define the first currents of modern socialist thought as exemplified by the work of Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen, which inspired Karl Marx and other early socialists.[1] However, visions of imaginary ideal societies, which competed with revolutionary social-democratic movements, were viewed as not being grounded in the material conditions of society and as reactionary.[2] Although it is technically possible for any set of ideas or any person living at any time in history to be a utopian socialist, the term is most often applied to those socialists who lived in the first quarter of the 19th century who were ascribed the label "utopian" by later socialists as a negative term, in order to imply naivete and dismiss their ideas as fanciful or unrealistic.[3] Forms of socialism which existed in hunter-gatherer societies are referred to as primitive communism by Marxists.[4] Definition[edit] Development[edit] Ursula K.

Corning, Iowa. Peerconomy.org. Digital Communities: Local Government News & Articles. Open Source Beyond Technology | opensource.com. OpenSource.com: Conferences and events. Calendar for open source conferences, seminars, meetings, webinars, and more Know an open source event that should be listed? Your contributions are appreciated.Attending an event? Let us know if you'd like to write an event recap for opensource.com. November | December LinuxCon Europe 2012 LinuxCon Europe will bring together the best and brightest that the Linux community has to offer, including community developers, system administrators, business executives and operations experts.

Date: November 5-7Location: Hotel Fira Palace, Barcelona, SpainLink: KVM Forum/oVirt Workshop 2012 During this workshop you’ll learn about the technical background and direction of the oVirt project. Date: November 7-9Location: Hotel Fira Palace, Barcelona, SpainLink: Tcl'2012 At the 19th annual Tcl/Tk conference, you'll learn more about this open source programming framework. Capitol Camp 2012. BoonEx - Community Software Experts. Library. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest.

Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation. "Collaboration and Community" by Scott London. Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!