Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world
Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world
PHOAKS: a system for sharing recommendations
Communications of the ACM
Emergence: from chaos to order
Emergence: from chaos to order
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Towards an Authoring Coach for Adaptive Web-Based Instruction
AH '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
Adaptive evolutionary information systems
Evolving learning in the stuff swamp
Adaptive evolutionary information systems
Recommender systems: a market-based design
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Designing information systems requirements in context: insights from the theory of deferred action
International Journal of Business Information Systems
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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This paper discusses the educational uses of self-organised web-based environments that are defined as Epimethean Information Systems. Epimethean Information Systems are not designed in the conventional sense, but take their shape in response to the actions of the people that use them. They share a range of characteristics, including implicit communication between users, emergent structure, and self-organisation. The fact that structure in such systems arises out of a dialogic process means that they are potentially ideal vehicles for e-learning, combining high and low transactional distance (a measurement of the relative degree of structure and dialogue in an educational transaction) in a single environment as well as shaping themselves to the needs of a specific community.