How Collective Intelligence Redefines Education

Lynn Ilon ()
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Lynn Ilon: College of Education, Seoul National University

No 201299, TEMEP Discussion Papers from Seoul National University; Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP)

Abstract: While collective intelligence systems become ubiquitous for learning in knowledge industries, civic life and personal lives, they have yet to be embraced into formal schooling systems. Still, learning, knowledge and assessment protocols still abide, in large part, to the educational systems logic of the industrial era. The temptation is to view schooling as falling behind with teacher retraining and curriculum revision leading the way. This article examines the underlying logic of both collective intelligence and formal education systems and traces education¡¯s reluctance to it roots in an industrial era and the incentives prevailing in its structures. Embracing collective intelligence, then, will require a redefinition of schooling rather than a mere retooling.

Keywords: Knowledge Creation; Curriculum; Education; Collective Intelligence. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A31 D83 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2012-01, Revised 2012-01
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Published in Proceedings of the Symposium on Collective Intelligence (COLLIN 2011), in Advances in Intelligent and Soft computing, Springer, 2011.

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