“Many people think that creativity comes from the generation of ideas, but in reality it starts much earlier, by asking new questions, because if you ask a different question, you’re going to get a different answer.”
This is the thought that Philippe Delespesse presented at a workshop on creative thinking for people taking part in the UOC&PLUGGED competition a few months ago.
Jordi Graells Costa, Content and Innovation Coordinator for the Catalan government and a speaker at the CEG Catalonia Forum on “Business Risks in Social Networks”, has drafted these ten points as the main conclusions from the Forum. These ten points offer the keys to the unstoppable phenomenon of social networks.
The wikispeech that took place on 20 March 2012 involved a debate with Dolors Reig (social media consultant, psychologist and professor) and Humberto Schwab (Socratic innovator) on the concept of social learning and how new technologies have changed the way we understand education and training.
A few months ago saw the start of an open and collaborative project developed by the UOC and ARA aimed at the education and teaching sector.
The Mestresclass project is a constantly updated platform aimed at raising the profile of the knowledge of Catalan teaching staff in an environment of cooperation and co-creation.
As an expert in social psychology, Dolors Reig explains to us the meaning of this concept: "Social psychology is change in society brought about by how an individual changes. Before large structures are modified, what changes first are people (their thoughts, feelings and behavior)".
Here at Open Minds we want publicize initiatives like this one and make sure that the knowledge generated reaches more and more people. We have started this exchange of contents with The Project so that we together can fill the IN MOVEMENT section with new proposals, talent and ideas.
As the UOC’s social portal, here at Open Minds we want to share and exchange content with other platforms, organizations, groups and experts who, like us, want to spread knowledge and open and accessible learning.
Here is the link to the video of the wikispeech “El món opensource i la innovació social en l'àmbit public” [The open-source world and social innovation in the public sphere] involving Josep Miró (Director of Strategy and Innovation at Barcelona City Council) and Enric Senabre (Online Community Manager and Project Coordinator at Goteo) for those of you who were unable to attend.
The UOC, as a networked and net-based university, doesn’t let any chance to foster a spirit of community and belonging among its students, faculty, collaborators and alumni go by.
With this in mind, they have now created an application called UOC Maps to aid communication between the members of the university community and to help them make contact, whether for professional or personal reasons.
During one of the Plug Sessions organized as part of UOC&PLUGGED we had the chance to interview Alfons Cornella, president of Infonomia and the man behind Co-society.
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