Self-organised learning environments:
Below are links to a series of web-based systems developed to enable groups of learners to help each other learn. Employing processes such as evolution and stigmergy, they generate an emergent structure which embodies something akin to a group mind.
CoFIND
CoFIND is a collaborative self-organising resource database. It is a technology underlying a number of applications designed to assist the development of self-organised network-based learning environments.
Dwellings
Dwellings is a collaborative resource database which makes use of social navigation to guide and influence its inhabitants, which is essentially a communication space where users interact in (almost) real-time.
The Site Market
The Site Market is a system based on self-organising principles (primarily stigmergy and evolution) which operates as a market economy. Like CoFIND and Dwellings, it is a recommender system for websites. It attempts to make use of the desire of users to achieve success for their "market stalls" which contain their lists of websites. Combining social navigation (stigmergy) and evolutionary principles (reproduction with variation and natural selection) it encourages the development of good groups of websites.
Privacy disclaimer: Some of the systems here make use of cookies to store session information. These should not persist after your web browser is closed down. All these systems store information about you, but it is up to you whether this is personally identifiable or not.
