I’ve finally completed and uploaded the End of phase-one and two Cloudworks Summary report to this blog. This report aims to pull together a number of papers and reports that have been written across this time, which detail the development decisions, theoretical frameworks, our initial investigations and the findings of these. This interim report has been written too early in our research to demonstrate empirically more than glimpses of emerging patterns but we have now developed clear ideas about research questions that will inform Cloudworks position within this landscape of practice, as well as guide implications for further systematic research.
We continue to recognise the complexity and challenges inherent in supporting and promoting a collaborative and open learning design process. However, we argue that Cloudworks is a platform where we are starting to see evidence of expressive interactions, crowd sourcing and archiving of issues relating to learning designs and the process of design. We are also starting to see new connections and interactions emerging within Cloudworks (on a given time, for a given purpose, or randomly and serendipitously) which we believe are key in supporting the dialogic and creative process of design.
