1. ALT-C 2009, Manchester, 08 Sept 2009 the use of next generation technologies to build sustainable communities of practice

2. a user-centred learning technology R&D support community network http:// reports.jiscemerge.org.uk /

4. The Emerge Project used Web2.0 technologies with a user-centred, research-led approach based on Appreciative Inquiry, which was explicitly intended to be productive of positive change. Based on real individuals, not abstractions or learner profiles or models but actual individual people, who kick back, re-interpret, resist, subvert, play and work in many ways, often unexpected It is important to recognise that the community itself is multi-modal, and not conflate “community” with any one mode, e.g. the “platform”

6. Members join closed community Groups form around shared interests User engagement Aggregation of communication Benefits realisation Synthesis and capacity building Passing on, sustaining

7. Appreciative Inquiry

9. Service portfolio

13. Symposium

17. Real change starts with underlying models Finance Implementation Systems Profiles Disciplines Sectors Roles Standards Locations Institutions Open?

19. Self-selected (autonomous, self-directed) individuals build networks to meet broader social objectives beyond the ‘daily-me’ ... Networked individuals can move across, undermine, and transgress boundaries of existing institutions. This provides the basis for pro-social networks: neither personal nor institutional. These self-selected, internet enabled, networked individuals often break from existing organisational or institutional networks that are themselves being transformed in Internet space... The ability that the Internet affords individuals to network beyond institutional arenas reinforces communicative power . (Dutton 2008, 5 th Estate, 5-6 my paraphrase ) A Connected Commons Acting in British constitutional history