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Complex systems, as defined by the Informatics group at Indiana University, is when local interactions generate new, unanticipated emergent properties in a many-bodied system and changes in one area reach throughout the system.
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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies todayHome Explore Community Help Sign Up Log In Document Information 4 Reads | 0 Comments The loss of their specialised knowledge of nature is a grave concern for many indigenous communities throughout the world. Education, as it is understood in a Western context, occupies a pivotal ...
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Heuristics and Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological SystemsThis paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We ...
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Adaptive Capacity and Traps - learning, flexibility, change, adaptation, resilienceAdaptive capacity is the ability of a living system, such as a social–ecological system, to adjust responses to changing internal demands and external drivers. Although adaptive capacity is a frequent topic of study in the resilience literature, there are few formal models. This paper introduces ...
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Projects as a Complex Adaptive SystemAs a fundamental model for projects I want to use the notion of a Complex Adaptive System (CAS). In this post I will outline what this means; what are the properties of a CAS and how are they beneficial in our quest to search for answers to project problems?
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Resilience of a social-ecological systemThe general meaning of resilience, derived from its Latin roots 'to jump or leap back', is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. In the Resilience Alliance we put more emphasis on the capacity to "get back" than to "bounce back". Our focus is social-ecological ...
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71Twitter – Do Friends Count More than Followers? HP Academic Research |A nice summary and analysis of the Huberman-Romero_Wu paperKevin Makice added 8 months ago
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7The Network University? Technology, Culture and Organisational Complexity in Contemporary Higher EducationThe social construction of technology use in education.Giorgio Bertini added 11 months ago
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7The Viable Systems Model Guide 3e"The most remarkable story involves the application of the VSM in Chile in 1971. Beer was invited by President Salvador Allende to study the entire social economy and to make changes to the existing systems of organisation. In the 18 months before Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup, Stafford Beer...Giorgio Bertini added 11 months ago
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7Learning to share learning - an exploration of methods to improve and share learningMore on sharing and social learning at Conversations, Learning and Change . Social Learning and Networks . Web for Change .Giorgio Bertini added 12 months ago
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7Learning to ShareMore on sharing and social learning at Conversations, Learning and Change . Social Learning and Networks . Web for Change .Giorgio Bertini added 12 months ago
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