Her specialisation is in Collective Intelligence theory, design and system development and covers the following fields: collaborative learning, co-creativity and community management in Computer Supported Collaborative eLearning (CSCeL); open innovation and user innovation networks in business strategic development; idea generation and distributed leadership in Project Management; and collective intelligence systems design in Human-Computer Interaction.

Her breadth of activities vary from quantitative and qualitative research, social network analysis, business intelligence, as well as software design, online community and e-learning design and engineering, community management, and even presentations, professional speaking and web design. She currently works as Human-Computer Interaction Education designer and researcher at the Euro-Cat CSCL project at London South Bank University.

Studying the leaps between developments reveals patterns of evolution helps to forward existing ideas getting ever further by collaboration and co-creativity. In this way ideas can develop as notes in a music composition allowing infinite possibilities. As imagination is based on previous knowledge, she can translate scientific information into projects and business settings as well as systems requirements. lastly, she believes in equality and encouraging people to develop their personal skills and attributes.

News

Recent Activities

Workshop Organiser with Prof. Fintan Culwin

Group Awareness in Online Work, Learning & Games -23/08/2010

Deadline 23/08/2010

@ University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland

Workshop Website: http://sites.google.com/site/groupawareness/

HCI 2010 – The BCS HCi conference – http://www.hci2010.org/
6th – 10th September at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland
Find us on social media Twitter @bcshci & Facebook

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Keynote Speaker

http://expoelearning.com/

@ Expo-e-learning * Madrid, Spain

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EDITED BOOK

Educational Social Software for Context-aware Learning: Collaborative Methods and Human Interaction

Edited by Margarida Romero and myself. Coming on the book shelves on 30 September 2009.  You may pre-order on Amazon.

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Call for Papers

Community-based Innovation:
Designing Shared Spaces for Collaborative Creativity

Edited by Margarida Romero and myself. Coming soon on the International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) ISSN (Online): 1741-8216 – ISSN (Print): 1477-8394

Submissions : 30 July 2009 (extended abstracts or full proposals)

Call for Papers: Lambropoulos_Romero_IJWBC_09.doc

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=77953907558

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Distributed Leadership & Online Communities

Coming soon on the Human Technology Journal

FaceGroup: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23608240896

CALL FOR PAPERS: Distributed Leadership & Online Communities

Submission Deadline for a 2-page proposal or manuscript: July 31, 2009
Special issue of Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
on Humans in ICT Environments:
Distributed Leadership & Online Communities
edited by:

Dr. Niki Lambropoulos
London South Bank University, London, UK

http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/
Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23608240896&ref=ts

Overall Objectives of the Special Issue

The main objective of this special issue is to bring together contributions on the topic of Distributed Leadership and Online Communities. The key objective is to look into the importance of online communities in participatory decision making in companies and organisational and governmental institutions. This special issue also will focus on real life case studies where such evaluations have been applied and validated. We hope the special issue not only will report first experiences and debates, but also go beyond the current state of the art by looking at future prospects and emerging applications.

Distributed Leadership and Online Communities

Leadership refers to top down, bottom up, and distributed management. Top down is the traditional model of centralising control, and bottom up is referring to transformational leadership. In this latter scheme, the empathic leader plays the role of the instrument between him/herself and the community to which s/he belongs. Distributed leadership builds upon participants? contributions in participatory decision making. Despite the fact that the capacity for leadership is both individual and collective (Ancona & Bresman, 2007; Senge, 1996), at the moment, managemental methodologies and techniques for both top down and bottom up approaches exist, but not for distributed leadership.

Distributed leadership (Woods, 2004) has been related to participatory decision making and participatory democracy. To Ghosh (2002), it is a matter of a more purposeful resolve to build ?multi-dimensional trust? within an organisation. This concept is further enhanced by the myriad ICTs and online technologies available today. Examples of applied participatory management come from media and computer companies, as well as governmental, educational , and governmental organisations. For example, some program producers encourage viewers to vote on the plot and decide on the actual end to a film, series, or protagonists. Customers for some companies can make suggestions and vote on their ideas for products. Students? online communities in universities make suggestions to enhance policy-making decisions. The EU has made several attempts to involve the citizens in decision making by providing online discussion forums and tools to facilitate this process. (See, for example, the Interactive Policy-making Tool?http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/ipm?which aims to improve governance by using the Internet to collect and analyse reactions of citizens and enterprises, evaluate existing EU policies, and facilitate open consultations on new initiatives.) However, the organisational structures to support the non-hierarchical nature of power and authority structures are not widely studied. Furthermore, there are few studies considering the incorporation of information systems into a business perspective for building direct ties and relationships that benefit from improved communication with customers or reform public services.

As such, this special issue will be of great use to those who study, design, construct, moderate, evaluate and maintain distributed leadership techniques in organizations, e-learning, eBusiness, e-government and other related domains.

References

Ancona, D., & Bresman, H. (2007). X-teams: How to build teams that lead, innovate and succeed. City, State, USA: Harvard Business School Press.
Ghosh, P. S. (2002). Committing to re-Build trust as a ?true servant? of a fractured civilization: Towards a more enlightened leadership. Leadership Speeches and Presentations, 2008, IAP Leadership Session. Retrieved April 15, 2008, from http://web.mit.edu/psgleadership/speeches.htm
Senge, P. (1996). Leading learning organizations: The bold, the powerful, and the invisible. Retrieved May 21, 2008, from http://www.solonline.org/repository/item?item_id=363266
Woods, P. A. (2004). Democratic leadership: Drawing distinctions with distributed leadership. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 7(1), 3?26.

Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following

? Introduction: Leadership before and after the turn of the century, concepts analysis
? Distributed leadership: Theories on management and engagement; organisational strategy and the role of senior management; the role of communication; vision and organisational goals; research on measuring levels of engagement
? Online communities: The use of online networks for decision making.
? Analysis: multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches as in query-based techniques (interviews, focus groups, surveys; content and discourse analysis); the use of ethnographic methodologies and fieldwork.
? Design: Conceptual and detailed design; ontologies; design to enhance ideas sharing and co-creativity; participatory design; prototyping (paper/electronic); screen design; leadership architecture; design of distributed leadership schemes and features; other innovative design approaches.
? Evaluation: Tools and evaluation techniques; multidisciplinary evaluation; frameworks to apply results into practice.
? Applicability of distributed leadership in online communities
? Case studies
? Future trends

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a manuscript or a 2-page manuscript proposal no later than July 31, 2008. All will be notified by August 31, 2008 about the status of their proposals. Full rough drafts are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2008 and will be reviewed on a blind review basis.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:

Dr. Niki Lambropoulos
Researcher, Online Community Architect & Business Analyst
Centre for Interactive Systems Engineering
London South Bank University
London, UK
e-mail: niki@lambropoulos.org

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User Innovation Networks at HCII 2009 in San Diego

I organise an expert session on User Innovation Networks under the rubric of Online Communities. Facebook UIN Group – HCII 2009 San Diego, CA

Thurs 23rd July 10.30 – 12.30
Online Communities and Social Computing – User Innovation Networks
Room: Sunrise
Chair(s): Niki Lambropoulos, London South Bank University, UK.

http://www.hcii2009.org/files/HCII2009_Final_Program.pdf

1. Distributed Leadership, Trust and Online Communities
Jill Jameson, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom.

2. Weighting Structures: Evolutionary Dynamics of Innovation Networks in Virtual Communities
Vitaliano Andrea Barberio, University of Bologna, Italy; AlessandroLomi, University of Lugano, Switzerland.

3. The Innovation Architectures of Facebook
Susan Ferebee, JamesDavis, University of Phoenix, United States.

4. Innovation Networks: A Report on Creating a Specialist Professional Social Network, offline and online, to foster innovation in the new media sector.
Robert Cotton, Arts Institute at Bournemouth, United Kingdom.

5. User Innovation Networks & Research Challenges
Niki Lambropoulos, London South Bank University, United Kingdom; PanagiotisKampylis, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland; Aneesha Bakharia, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

6. Modding as Rating Behavior in Virtual Communities: The Case of Rooster Teeth Productions
Stefan Haefliger, PhilipReichen, PeterJaeger, GeorgVon Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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Workshop: HCI-ED Interaction Analysis Workshop

Tools to Support Interaction & Cognitive Awareness in CSCL

9 June – Blended Learning Workshop, CSCL Rhodes 09

Hypothesis: If e-learners were able to observe their behaviour in relation to themselves and their peers will they alter their behaviour?Available on the dates @ http://www.intelligentq.net/e-learning

Please join the workhop to find out
Thank you!
Niki Lambropoulos & Fintan Culwin
with Margarida Romero & Aneesha Bakharia

Session in the Workshop: Interaction Analysis and Visualization: Analysis’ Methods, Tools and Research Questions -Focusing on Asynchronous Discussion Forums, lists, blogs- http://www.ltee.org/IA_WS_CSCL2009/

Organizers: Eric Bruillard, STEF, ENS Cachan, 61 av. du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan Cedex, France * Angelique Dimitracopoulou, LTEE laboratory, University of the Aegean, 1, Av. Democratias, 85100, Rhodes, Greece * Peter Reimann, CoCo Research Centre, Education Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

EU Research Workshop

LSBU, 19.05.09 – Euro-CAT CSCL: The Project Idea by Margarida Romero & myself Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Other Activities

• The SWEL@AIED’09, Semantic Web for E-Learning for Artificial Intelligence in Education 09, Programme Committee, invited by Prof. Niels Pinkwart.

• The 8th ECEL 2009 International Conference on E-learning, Executive Committee, invited by Prof. Agostino Marengo.
• Associate Partner: University of Athens, In-Service Teachers Training in Environmental Education.

Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers (EEMAPE)

Life Long e-Learning Associate Partner @ http://e-learning.primarymusic.gr/:

• Sunday 10 May 2009: Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers  e-Courses for Life Long Learning:  Introducing the e-Training on Project Method and Collaborative Creativity for Music Teachers (forthcoming)

• Sunday 15 Feb 2009: Music technology workshop
  

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Book Chapter in ‘Videoconference in the Service of Life-Long and Distance Learning’ Edited by Dr. P. Anastassiades

Book Chapter in ‘Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe’

Recently published by the Commonwealth of Learning is this edited e-book titled Education for a Digital World – advice, guidelines and effective practice from around the globe. My contribution to this amazing project is Chapter 9 on Quality Assurance by Design (p.111). (Free download e-book).

From Derek’s blog: This 500-page volume contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.

There are five sections in the book, with contributed chapters under the headings of:

* The impact of Instructional technologies
* Preparing Online Courses
* Implementing Technology
* eLearning in Action
* Engagement and Communication

The book itself has been designed in such a way that it could be used as a handbook for a course on the topic – with each of the 31 very informative chapters introduced with a list of learning outcomes that should be achieved as the reader works his/her way through the chapter.

There’s simply too much in this book for me to do it justice with a brief mention here – suffice to say that there is something of value in here for everyone, from the newcomers to the topic to those who are well down the track.Another excellent piece of work from the Commonwealth of Learning!

Call for Papers

Call for Book chapters: Deadline EXTENDED to 31 May 2008

http://www.educationalsocialsoftware.net/

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