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Monthly Archive for March, 2009
A colleague forwarded me a nice blog post by an MIT PhD student on grad school advice.
It is a great list… except exercise is missing from it, as well as timeboxing.
Today Chad Anderson reported on the ground work for his dissertation. He cited several Organizational scholars who have called for more theorizing in how materiality relates to the IT artifact.
He then related the theory of affordances which originated from Gibson’s 1979 work in Ecological Psychology. Gibson died shortly after proposing the theory, and many others have gone on to explicate it. Chad relates affordances to IT research as the relationship between “features of an information system and the abilities of an individual within the context of an environment.” It will be interesting to see where this goes… and I am sure Chad can correct me if I mis-discribing something!
This colloquium session was a bit more theoretical than most, but very interesting.
Open innovation in education, OLEDs, and Nature
Mozilla, Creative Commons, and P2P University announced a new open innovation initiative to partner with educators in extending Mozilla’s role in the education space. This post has more about Mozilla’s strategic position to engage in the open innovation process build educational materials.
Innocentive and Nature just announced a partnership of somekind to engage scientists in solving global scientific challenges. It is refreshing to see this large publisher getting involved in such a worthwhile endevor. Perhaps this is in response to MIT’s announcement to make all it’s faculties scientific papers available for free on the internet.
Lastly, Novaled, an OLED maker, and Holst Centre, an open innovation R&D company announced a partnership.
Read Pascal Finette’s blog about the interesting name change for the LinkedIn Open Innovation group.