Welcome to the Engelbart Educational Networked Improvement Community Portfolio. In 2003 Dr. Douglas Engelbart invited Angie Cooksie from Indiana University East, and Valerie Landau from California State University Monterey Bay to form an experimental Educational Networked Improvement Community (EdNIC) to study and apply Dr. Engelbart 'theoretical framework' of the simultaneous co-evolution of human organizations and tool systems to augment the collective capability.

The EdNIC is made up of scholars, students, and industry professionals who collaborate via the Internet,
video conferences, and face to face. Our goal is to collaborate in order to increase our capability to solve problems. This portfolio documents some of the results generated by the EdNIC, and the work created by
California State University Monterey Bay students from 2004 to 2006.

Student Projects

How did Doug Engelbart influence your work?
A CSUMB film crew led by Associate Professor Valerie Landau asked this question of several Silicon Valley pioneers and scholars at Doug Engelbart's 80th birthday party reunion held at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in January 2005. This project archives and transcribes those interviews.
Project developer: Rebecca Sheranian

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Project Specs

Engelbart Student Projects Showcase
The Student Showcase re-purposes the Video Archive above and highlights some of the exemplary projects created by CSUMB students who participated in a series of courses dedicated to studying Engelbart's theories. Project developer: Rebecca Sheranian

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Douglas Engelbart 2004 Augment Demo
This Photo Essay chronicles a demonstration given by Dr. Douglas Engelbart of the 'AUGMENT SYSTEM' to the CSUMB students in the Fall 2004. In 1968 Engelbart and his team at Stanford Research Institute demonstrated a the Augment/NLS system, a demo that became known as the Mother of all Demos'.
Project developer: Charles Spidell

Engelbart, An Invitation to Innovation
An historical timeline showcasing fifty years of Dr. Engelbart's accomplishments. The timeline can be explored interactively or as narrated slide show about Dr. Engelbart. Project developer:Teresa Barsanti

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OpenCourse
A platform used to create virtual communities for the purpose of information sharing. Designed and created by Dorai Thodla and Robert Stephenson. CSUMB students documented their experience using OpenCourse.

Engelbart EdNIC Wiki on OpenCourse

NextNow
A Silicon Valley organization of professionals and scholars who explore the potential of technology. In the spring of 2005 NextNow invited Valerie Landau to bring her CSUMB students to a meeting with Dr. Douglas Engelbart at his home. Many leaders of Silicon Valley organizations participated in the meeting to strategize on how to best articulate and disseminate the Engelbart vision.

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FlashMeeting Video conferences
Doug Engelbart and a global community of scholars and technologists collaborated online to discuss the Engelbart Hypothesis and Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKRs). In a series of video conferences coordinated by the EdNIC collaborators we conducted web based video conferencing with software inspired by Engelbart, FlashMeeting.

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