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Dr Simon Buckingham Shum
The Open University UK, Knowledge Media Institute, Senior Lecturer & Associate Director (Technology): http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs/welcome

Simon Buckingham Shum is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute, where he leads the Hypermedia Discourse Group. He brings a Human-Centred Computing perspective to the challenge of building Collective Intelligence and the sensemaking capacity that 21st Century citizenship requires, from childhood onwards. He has particular interests in the technology and practice of visualizing dialogue and argumentation. His projects range from the theoretical to very applied, funded by UK Research Councils (AHRC; EPSRC; ESRC), JISC e-Science/Virtual Research, Hewlett Foundation, UN-ILO, DARPA and British Council. He is a founding member of the Compendium Institute and GlobalSensemaking.net, and was Co-Founder and Co-General Editor (1996-2004) of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, one of the early open source, web-native e-journals pioneering embedded multimedia and open web peer review. He served as Director of the Open University’s SocialLearn Project in 2009, on the Steering and Technical Groups of the OU’s Hewlett Foundation-funded OpenLearn OER initiative (2006-08, in which he led the development of learning tools for Open Sensemaking Communities), and is an Investigator on the Hewlett-funded Open Learning Network Project to build collective intelligence for the OER movement (2009-12). In the schools context, he has been a Governor at Radcliffe Secondary School, Wolverton, and is Chair of Governors at Bushfield School, Wolverton, and is deepening his engagement in next generation schools work as part of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation/Innovation Unit Learning Futures initiative.