Networked Community Showcase

Overview 1

The Doug Engelbart Institute is delighted to showcase these networked communities which are practicing most or all of the five accelerators for Bootstrapping Brilliance, or something very close to it. These are excellent case examples of networked improvement communities, or "NICs", a term coined by Doug Engelbart to emphasize the importance of collectively addressing significant challenges and opportunities. 1a

Our first community showcase, the New Media Consortium (NMC) case study, was developed by Executive Director Dr. Larry Johnson. Our use case at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the brainchild of Dr. Gardner Campbell, was profiles in a recent feature article by the Internet Hall of Fame: Internet Pioneer's Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological.

Community Spotlight 2

Virginia Commonwealth University Bootstrapping Brilliance in the "Thought Vectors" Initiative and cMOOC [ learn more ]	New Media Consortium Bootstrapping Innova­tion in service of member uni­ver­si­ties, colleges, museums, ... [ learn more ]	Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching A Center for Networked Improvement [ learn more ]
Uganda Rural Develop­ment Training Programme Bootstrapping commu­nity development through leadership training for girls [ learn more ]

New Media Consortium 3

  Led by Dr. Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer

• Case Study: NMC: Bootstrapping Innovation the Doug Engelbart Way - a case example of how one innovative community-based organization has put these strategic principles to best practice; read their story, study their chart, watch their presentation.


• Related Publications at NMC: The NMC Horizon Project analyzes emergent technologies for its international community of learning institutions, publishing results in a variety of Horizon Reports - for example the Higher Education Edition, K-12 Edition, Museum Edition, Library Edition,Scandinavian Schools, ...
  

Uganda Rural Development Training Programme (URDT) 4

  Case study by Patricia Seybold, Founder and CEO Patricia Seybold Group, Author: Outside Innovation and The Customer Revolution

• Case Study: How these rural initiatives in Uganda are already meeting the Engelbart Challenge - a case example of how one innovative residential school for girls in Uganda has already been practicing such accelerators to best practice. Read their story, watch their videos.
  
  
• Related Articles by Patricia Seybold: Innovation in Education: School Children Improve Their Families' Livelihoods; Doug Engelbart's Design for High Performance Innovative Organizations; Bootstrapping Innovation - Leveraging the Collective IQ to Achieve Powerful Results.

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) 5

  Led by Dr. Gardner Campbell, Dean of University College, Associate Professor of English

• Case Example: Announcing Summer MOOC and Engelbart Scholar Award at VCU and MOOC site thoughtvectors.net


• Feature Article: Internet Pioneer's Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological
  


• Related Articles: Internet Pioneer's Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological; Virginia Commonwealth University –"Thought Vectors in Concept Space", Connectivist MOOC helps students embrace digital media, and Engelbart Scholars tour with Doug Engelbart Institute

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 6

  Led by Tony Bryk, President

• Case Example: See Carnegie Foundations's Center for Networked Improvement and Principles of Improvement
  


• Related Articles by Tony Bryk: Getting Ideas into Action: Building Networked Improvement Communities in Education, and Improvement Research Carried Out Through Networked Communities