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| Community Inquiry Laboratories: Supporting people to develop shared capacity to address common problems |  |  |  | A Community Inquiry Laboratory (iLab) is a place where members of a community come together to develop shared capacity and work on common problems. "Community emphasizes support for collaborative activity and for creating knowledge that is connected to people's values, history, and lived experiences. "Inquiry" points to support for open-ended, democratic, participatory engagement. "Laboratory" indicates a space and resources to bring theory and action together in an experimental and critical manner." Our software to support Community Inquiry Laboratories is a communication, collaboration, and content management (C3MS) system (Schneider, et al., 2003), built out of open source bricks in categories such as Collaboratory-building, Instructional support, Laboratory tools, Document management, Communication, and Time management. The talk will introduce the theory, associated web-based tools, community engagement, and research on iLabs.
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