The Electromagnetic Education Initiative [E.E.I] is a multiphase collaborative project which seeks to organize electromagnetic content online, conduct basic research in electromagnetic literacy, and design and build an interdisciplinary foundation for the further study of electromagnetism in various learning environments, including offline.
Currently in Phase 1 of its development, a core- group of participants and open-grantors are sought to support and help establish the project. Please contact the facilitator if you are interested in contributing to this public project as an individual, business, organization, or government agency. Also, please subscribe to the electronetwork-list for on- going project announcements & calls for contributors.
About the E.E.I.
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/about/
"... By inverting the traditional organization of expertknowledge to focus on the content instead of isolated disciplines, the strategic cultivation of a new common knowledge of electromagnetism is made possible. Questions are thus freed from the limits imposed by preordained and outdated empirical models. And the focus can become the creative research and development of content, which is itself more sub- stantial than any single medium, form, or specialist discipline. Generalist knowledge of electromagnetism, when organized around ideas rather than institutional structures, in turn enables novel opportunities for integrating new and old explorations with inter- disciplinary understanding ..."
Overview of the E.E.I.
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/overview/
"... Electromagnetism permeates everything around us, yet it is abstract and complicated to understand... The Electromagnetic Education Initiative (EEI) seeks to transform this situation by recontextualizing electro- magnetic phenomena from a cultural perspective. By establishing a common knowledge of the vital role of electromagnetism in our art, science, & technology, public awareness can be fostered.
The EEI will accomplish this goal in three phases:
PHASE 1 - Electromagnetic Internetwork website
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/phase1/
The Electronetwork.org website will contain electro- magnetic content gathered online the Internet which will be organized into databases, featured works, hyperlinks, and electromagnetic educational materials. Electromagnetic Internetworking (electronetworking) will facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration in helping raise public awareness of electromagnetism.
PHASE 2 - Electromagnetic Literacy project
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/phase2/
The common foundation of Electromagnetic Civilization will be excavated in a hands-on 'dig' of the new electro- magnetic space-time, aesthetics, and culture using basic tools. Documentation will establish the basis for a common sense awareness and understanding of electro- magnetism in everyday life, the world over.
PHASE 3 - Electromagnetic Studies project
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/phase3/
The story of electromagnetism will be rewritten in an Electromagnetic Cosmography which maps and diagrams its evolution from the theoretical Big Bang to the Internet. This new empirical model will recontextualize electro- magnetic knowledge from an interdisciplinary perspective, and advance its educational research and development.
E.E.I. Participants
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/model/
"...The model for group and individual participation in the EEI is that of Electromagnetic Internetworking, also known as Electronetworking. It is based upon the idea the idea that persons of various disciplines can learn from those in others, who work on related content, and also advance their works through the exchange of ideas and unique perspectives..."
E.E.I. Open-Grant
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/eei/venture/
"...The Open-Grant is the result of non-existent support from traditional granting institutions which define the specific expertise for grants. As the EEI is a general and multi-phased endeavor, a strategy of making the grant open for public review, by as many parties and peoples around the world as is possible, is hoped to improve upon the initiative and also to widen the range of potential grantors, supporters, and participants, as this is in the nature of the project itself, to work with many, in a transparent organization, for common goals..."
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