Oriol Miralbell's_research

I read today this message from a member of INSNA regarding the interest of the French President to find different ways to measure social welfare:

French prexy Nicholas Sarkozy convened a blue-ribbon panel of Nobelish economists to find an alternative to the GNP as a measure of national well-being. They reported this week that the key was to measure “the quality of our social connections and relationships”. He also discovered that immigrants sponsored by kin tend to have better luck in finding jobs, getting started. (via Doug Saunders, “When in need of a happy immigration
policy, it’s all relatives“) Toronto Globe & Mail, Sept 19, 2009

This site is intended to be an instrument of communication in my academic research. Actually I’m working on my PhD Thesis and after two years of readings and observations I’m at the point of finishing the queationnaire for the survey I want to launch in the coming weeks.

Parallel to this research I’m following the CCK09 course that George Siemens and Stephen Downes are coordinating over the Internet. I strongly recommend this course to all rthose qho are interested in e-learning, knowledge sharing and connective or cooperative learning.

I hope and wish that this site becomes a forum for debate and knowledge generation.