@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002639,
 author = {James, Owen},
 journal = {語学研究, ICU Language Research Bulletin},
 month = {},
 note = {Collaboration on program development needs time, which is an
already scarce resource in most ELP situations, and inefficient
collaboration only makes matters worse. In such places, teachers
who are too busy to work together can end up disconnected from
each other, and when this happens the critical work of collaborating
on program development can only be compromised. However, there
are ways that organizations can use new social technologies to
connect everyone in open networks in order to promote access to -
and effective use of - knowledge and information as tools of
equitable and sustainable program development. This paper will
explain how the English Language Program (ELP) at ICU in Tokyo
is using free online social software services to facilitate increased
sharing of curriculum materials and ideas, efficient collaboration on
various documents, and automated archiving of program resources.
This paper can benefit ELP teachers and educators in general who
share an interest in the affordances of social software to realize the
power of networks to serve as mutual learning and program
development mechanisms.},
 pages = {1--15},
 title = {The Open Learning Network: A New Teacher-sourced Work Paradigm},
 volume = {23},
 year = {2009}
}