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The category collects learning materials and procedural pages in support of a project on ''Peer Educational Resources'' (PERs).  This project addresses a host of problems that I've observed arising in numerous projects devoted to developing ''Open Educational Resources'' (OERs) in one fashion or another.

This category collects learning materials and procedural pages in support of a project on ''Peer Educational Resources'' (PERs).  This project addresses a host of problems that I've observed arising in numerous projects devoted to developing ''Open Educational Resources'' (OERs) in one fashion or another.

In connection with this idea, I envisioned a way organizing materials that uses the concepts of ''Focal Nodes'' and ''Peer Nodes''.

In connection with this idea, I envisioned a way organizing materials that uses the concepts of ''Focal Nodes'' and ''Peer Nodes''.

I'll try to articulate a more detailed rationale on this and other pages later on, but this project is somewhat more experimental than thoroughly worked out ahead of time — as I'll be looking for new ways to break out of developmental ruts that I've observed over the last decade.

I'll try to articulate a more detailed rationale on this and other pages later on, but this project is somewhat more experimental than thoroughly worked out ahead of time — as I'll be looking for new ways to break out of developmental ruts that I've observed over the last decade.

'''First Readings'''

==First Readings==

Though I don't recall being fully aware of it at the time — we were focused on the issues of integrative education and the potential of "transversities", not the active geometry of the Web — many of these developments were already anticipated in a paper that Susan Awbrey and I wrote for a conference on ''Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-Forming Institutions'' and later reworked for the journal ''Organization''.

Though I don't recall being fully aware of it at the time — we were focused on the issues of integrative education and the potential of "transversities", not the active geometry of the Web — many of these developments were already anticipated in a paper that Susan Awbrey and I wrote for a conference on ''Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-Forming Institutions'' and later reworked for the journal ''Organization''.

* Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (September 1999), "Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations : The Challenge of Creating Integrative Universities for the Next Century", ''Second International Conference of the Journal ''Organization'' '', ''Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-Forming Institutions : Knowing, Knowledge, and the University in the 21st Century'', University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.  [http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm Online].

* Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (September 1999), "Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations : The Challenge of Creating Integrative Universities for the Next Century", ''Second International Conference of the Journal ''Organization'' '', ''Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-Forming Institutions : Knowing, Knowledge, and the University in the 21st Century'', University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.  [http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm Online].

— [[User:Jon Awbrey|Jon Awbrey]]

 

 

— [[User:JonAwbrey|Jon Awbrey]]