Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Thomas Mackey entitled Wiki Transparency in Blended and Distance Learning. About 28 in attendance.  A fair presentation. Main points include:

• "Transparency" is a main theme in modern politics all the way back through the 80s.
• Talking about making information more available.
• Benkler's Layers of information systems
  • Content (copyright issues)
  • Physical (storage and access)
  • Logical (software)
• Tensions include:
  • Who is in ownership of each of these layers?
  • "Who gets to say what, to whom, and who decides?" (Benkler)
• A Model for Wiki Transparency
  • Benkler's layers
    • Content
    • Network
    • Code
  • Superimposed by
    • Collaboration
    • Participation
    • Interaction
• ...left early.