But first ...

• If you haven't already, send me your project proposal
• full mailboxes = bounced feedback messages on your projects
• UI-OnLine brainstorming meeting
• Bob Jones talk on Monday, noon-1pm, 242 Ed Bldg.

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The Web as a Distributed Network Learning Framework

• web as a network of interlinked geographically distributed servers
• information flowing dynamically through the network
• mediator roles in determining the flow of information and the creation of structure (links) / knowledge
• incremental and distributed nature of this network learning

Spectrum of knowledge spaces

• Personal internal
• Personal external (own files)
• Narrowly shared (email to one other)
• More widely shared (email list or small group conference or web pages)
• Yet more widely shared (Intranet or larger listserve)
• Very widely shared (widely advertised and linked web pages)

Incremental construction of expert systems

• Specification of local rules (Eudora "filters", for example)
• Gradual movement of those rules outward toward where they are needed
• Standing answers
• Standing questions (agents/avatars)
• from procedural to object-oriented to agent-oriented
• externalization of the most routine, most boring leading to a local "expert system" assistant
• movement of that knowledge outward toward repeated requests
• movement of this knowledge as organizational learning
• "economics" of learning

Jacobson & Levin paper