Collective Intelligence

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to design, implement, analyse and report a case study.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to : analyse the context in which collective intelligence innovations are developed, analyse their design, and evaluate their impact.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge of a variety of empirical examples of collective intelligence processes and an understanding of the theoretical debates around collective intelligence.

This is an indicative list of topics that may be covered in any given year. The actual examples may vary from year to year, so there is no guarantee of any example here being covered in any particular session.

1) Introduction: What is collective intelligence?

2) How to write a case study

3) Example 1: Participatory budgeting

4) Example 2: Citizens' assemblies

5) Example 3: Community driven development

6) Example 4: Participatory Monitoring

7) Example 5: Forecasting Markets and Forecasting Tournaments

8) Example 6: Online Deliberation & collaborative tools

Part II: Theoretical models

9) Introduction to deliberative and participatory democracy

10) How does collective reasoning work?

11) Challenges to participatory and deliberative governance

12) How do we design collective intelligence democracies?

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching will be through 2-hour seminars each week (or twice a week depending on the format), which will incorporate some minilectures/student presentations and open group discussion.

Independent reading and reflection are essential for class preparation and learning more generally.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Suroweicki (2005). The wisdom of crowds. Anchor (0385721706).

Mulgan (2018). Big mind: How collective intelligence can change our world. Princeton University Press.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External