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What is Peer Production? Features of peer production are explained to be "self-organizing, egalitarian communities of individuals who come together voluntarily to produce a shared outcome." (p 67).
In this chapter the authors state, "IBM provides a surprising example of how a large, mature company with an engrained proprietary culture can embrace openness and self-organization as catalysts for reinvention." (p.83). Key benefits of Peer Production, for businesses to create value and competitive advantage include:
- Harnessing external talent
- Keeping up with users
- Boosting demand for complementary offerings
- Reducing costs
- Shifting the locus of competition
- Taking the friction ouot of collaboration
- Developing social capital
What relationship might peer production have to education?
As an example, the authors refer to the California Open Source Textbook project (see: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:COSTP_World_History_Project
What are your "3-2-1" takeaways (3 new ideas or nuggets of information you learned; 2 reasons you believe this is important to you as an educator, or education in general; and 1 thing you might "do" differently as a result of your discovery)? Do you think Peer Production could be good for education? What are the caveats?
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