The backlash against unethical labor practices in the “collaborative sharing economy” has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and others started to rail against online…
For all of its reach, Amazon, the company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995 as an online bookstore, is still remarkably invisible. It makes it easy not to notice how powerful and wide-ranging it has become. But behind the packages on the doorstep and the inviting interface, Amazon has quietly positioned itself at the center of a growing share of our daily activities and transactions, extending its tentacles across our economy, and with it, our lives.
Can platform co-operativism generate better policy solutions? Co-ops have not played a transformational role in past decades. However, a new trend is emerging: often grassroots initiatives of young non-profit activists inventing new platform co-ops.
mooKIT is a lightweight MOOC Management System conceived, designed and developed at IIT Kanpur. It has been used in 12 courses so far, the most recent being the set of five courses on agriculture called agMOOCs
Curatr is the award-winning social learning platform from HT2 which enables rapid delivery of innovative, gamified courses that really get people talking.
PebblePad - the Personal Learning Space, used in colleges, universities and professional bodies; by learners, teachers and assessors. Our award-winning technology helps our users experience better ways to use learning technology to develop and evidence the skills needed to excel in today's competitive world.
F. Karst, M. Li, and J. Leimeister. International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Pretoria, South Africa, (2023)
M. Fabien, S. Parida, P. Motlicek, D. Zhu, A. Krishnan, and H. Nguyen. Interspeech 2021, 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brno, Czech Republic, 30 August - 3 September 2021, (2021)