Thematic Networks & Estonia

Marge Kusmin

TUT

SCHOOL-MATESFAMILY

Social Networks

COLLEAGUES

Thematic Netrworks

• Thematic Networks are groups of people

who share a concern or a passion for

something they do and learn to do it

better as they interact regularly.

Etienne Wenger

Thematic Networks

• Self-organised

• Project-based

• Governmental

Purpose

KNOWLEDGE

sharing

creating

collecting

using

acquire

Members

Innovation

activity of communi-cation

high

high

low

lowvariation of knowledge

Maksimaalse leidlikkuse punkt (allikas: Hollingworth 2000).

Knowledge

KNOWLEDGE

EXPLICIT TACIT

IMPLICITWest-Networks Japan-Networks

KN sharing

• Trust and mutual undrstanding

• Developing

– shared language,

– vocabulary,

– interpretation,

– mental models

1930

JACOB LEVY MORENO

(1889 – 1974)

sotsioloog, psühhiaater, õpetaja

Analysing

Sociogram of Paul Erdós SN

Centrality

Connectors

Betweenness

Information Flow

Trust

Activity of communication

Social capital

Levels of Participation

– Cooperation between universities

– Innovative teaching methods

– e-Learning

– Thematic Networks

TN

• Educational Technology

• Computer Sciences

• Library and Information Sciences

• Education Sciences

• Hydrology

• Governance (State Sciences)

• Math & Natural Sciences

• Foreign Languages

Stages

Discovery

Coalescing

MaturingStewarding

Legacy

Future – network of the leaders

Future – portal

http://wiki.e-uni.ee/vorgustikud/doku.php

Future – portal

http://wiki.e-uni.ee/marge/doku.php

members

technical support

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