The role of social networking technologies and collective intelligence represents an emerging trend that bring along not only new business opportunities but also potentials for new ways of education. The emergence of these technologies supports relationship-building, cooperation, communication and knowledge-sharing between people at the private, professional and community levels. The capabilities of these technologies are more interactive and human-oriented than former generations of information and communication technologies (ICT). Thus, this environment provides new opportunities for people to collaborate, interact, communicate and innovate. Consequently, there has been a growing interest for utilizing it in the area of education, exploring in-depth their effects on improved processes and performance. Former research investigations clearly outline the strong connection between innovation capability and knowledge-sharing networks.

This session aims to bring together academia and practitioners to discuss the impacts of collective knowledge, innovation, and technologies in education. Social interaction between various stakeholders while designing a product or a service through ICT-facilitated networking (e.g., open innovation through co-creation) should be further discussed, as it can new opportunities and organizational learning capabilities.

The format of the session will be highly interactive. It will have a special format encouraging the exchange of insights, experiences and thoughts amongst all the participants. A knowledge café based on the David Gurteen model will take place right after the papers presentation. 

Chairs

• Prof.Dr. Aurelie Aurilla Bechina (Buskerud College University, Kongsberg, Norway)
• Dr. Eli Hustad (Agder University, Norway)

Topics

• Social Technology and Web 2.0 
• Collaboration and social networking 
• Social Media in a business context 
• Serious Game Based Learning 
• Innovation capability 
• Knowledge Sharing intra/cross organizational boundaries 
• Crowd accelerated Open Innovation 
• Knowledge Supply Chain Management 
• Product, Service, Process Collaborative Design 
• Social engineering