OK, stop -- and check this out: http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/show/43542-Charles-Bukowski-So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Writer
So the thing is there are about 1000000 references on AsteroidMeta, for starters. As for why anything else might be relevant, or what sort of research applies to this topic... I'm thinking about the role of philosophy in this project, and I don't know if that really counts as "research" (as much as I do want to read things like Conjectures and Refutations or Mille Plateaux). Maybe that thing by Chris Messina (cf. "Discussion" on work plan) is the most relevant thing I've heard about recently? One of the presentations at WikiSym 2010 was particularly fun, and a few others were quite interesting. Cormac Lawler's thesis is going to be relevant. Aaron's thesis is obviously related. "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics" keeps coming up. There are probably some good books about the way GNU and similar things work which could be relevant. That FHSST project had some nice points to make, more immediately on-topic than things about GNU, probably. I suspect the ROLE developers will have some technical stuff for me to think about, some of which may be quite relevant (Mash-Up Learning Environments...). Probably taking a look at the Vygotsky stuff everyone's always talking about could help (and maybe some other things from Kasia's bibliography). If Whitehead counted as research, that would be nice -- but maybe there are some folks who've cited him and who actually have done research on education (presumably the P2PU folks could help out here). Similarly it's likely that some other genre materials will appear in relation to other hoped-for partnerships; that's an easy one. "How to Solve It" probably isn't directly relevant, but presumably other people have written some things on the general topic of "How to Hack It". Similarly each of the technologies I'm interested in MAY have some research backgrounding.
That might be about it?
Genero seems based on some interesting research, e.g.: http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/98-lykkja-en.pdf (or here's something in Norwegian, http://fribit.no/prosjekter/genero/). Whether one goes with this or not it is interesting to look at ways in which money might change hands; another long-standing example has been tutoring.
These links and a few others from Dana Chandler: http://rob-cohen.com/, http://smartbear.com/, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/education/15plans.html, http://www.youtube.com/user/intromediateecon, http://www.livescribe.com/, http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2010/07/14/introducing-mindtouch-2010/
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