Policy and Complex Systems
part to the Periodic Table of the physical sciences . However , progress can be made by research revealing patterns of human behavior in the learning process . Complex event processing ( CEP ) has a role to play in the evolution of education in a democratic society .
The CEP is of great interest because it uses data from multiple sources to synthesize inferences about events and patterns that come from complex problems . We translate that to the jargon of complexity science to mean that complex event processing ( CEP ) is a computational model that processes interactions of agents to produce emergent properties in the form of potential patterns of outcomes . It is the patterns of outcomes and the patterns of activity from interactions within networks that are of particular interest . This is within the context of complexity science where altering structures has great impact on outcomes , but it is the processes that we need to understand better in order to get better outcomes .
Further to Holland ’ s ( 1998 ) Emergence : From Chaos to Order , he uses neuroscience and checkers to explain patterns in emergence . We need research to identify the patterns in learning and the content of that which is learned to carry the innovation forward in the form of a pilot project . The entity of ACE can go beyond simply facilitating the self-motivated learners to pursue their educations . The going beyond is to use computer technology to foster the process . It is in the patterns that form the emergent process of education that is what the ontology is about in the applications at hand . The strategy for education innovation used in this enterprise is based on individuals developing their sense of place in community realizing the importance of balance in individual and community interests .
A departure point is a series of fine projects funded by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation in what Case would classify as second wave advancements in utilization of the web . Projects were launched with education apps on Facebook . The idea is building pathways to knowledge , but the focus was on facilitating the development of peer groups among students to allow them to get into college and to allow them to afford college ( Case , 2016 ).
An extension in the second wave is to facilitate the interactions among the peer groups in which they educate each other . There is some research on that at the primary and / or secondary education levels . Our focus is at the post-secondary levels , but supplementing the hierarchical structure of curricula with self-selected paths of study , possibly supplemented with coaches or mentors .
The third wave calls for the integration of the web interaction as an extension of the mind leveraging off each other ’ s knowledge . In order to facilitate that it would need to utilize some computerized shortcuts to patterns , possibly built on information science ontology . Progress is being made in the startup stage for the Academy in the Cloud with Motivated Learners via wiki . The primary concept is the evolution of the way the mind becomes an extension of the body especially in the use of language to extend our thought . Clark ( 2008 ), Supersizing the Mind , discusses that in the book : Embodiment , Action , and Cognitive Extension . The concept is built upon developing the ACE Motivated Learner Strategy .
In order to build on that concept , the enterprise utilizes the treatise American Democracy , The Declaration , Pursuit , and Endangerment , from the ACE wiki site . The site provides an introductory education to some nascent disciplines in order to aid learners to understand the system using the lens of complexity science .
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