Week 15 : Reflection time....

Knowledge Networking or Knowledge Though Collective Consciousness

A few phrases spring to mind....

"Knowledge is power" - which is why some people do not share what they know for fear of making them vunrable or just to try and make their position untoachable

"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" - could be a more extreme version of the phrase above. Give someone too much 'power' and they may use it against people.

In order to change these attitudes to knowledge we need to makie sure that knowledge is shared or 'networked' between people, if certain knowledge is coveted by the individual then the group will suffer should anything happen to said individual.

How would we spread or share the knowledge around?

While the delivery methods are varied, the knowledge being delivered face-to-face or by ditance learning, the studnets can utilise a combination of wikis and blogs the students can pool their knowledge into one shared resource. It is, however, important to have a central hub or virtual learning environment to hold this knowledge in otherwise the temporamental nature of the internet could lead to the area, or site, that holds the knowledge being lost though closure of the site or other circumstances.


Students need to be able to collaborate and share their thoughts collectively through wikis on a VLE provided by their university, these wikis are an ideal place to share ideas and also to collect and comment upon information.

Wikis can also be used by students to interact and create new knowledge, also shared access areas where they can store documents for each another to view and add to, for example Google Documents, would be of great benefit to their progress.

It would be considered good rpactice for students to keep a blog of their progress over the course of their studies, it would allow them to keep up to date with what they have achieved and also allow for some degree of reflection.