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Evidence Hub is a collaborative knowledge-building (specifically evidence-building) web platform. It was designed in KMi by the team developing the concept of “Contested Collective Intelligence” [1,2], where it is important to understand different perspectives and support quality debates. The first Evidence Hub was developed for the Open Learning Network project
[3], and further refined in the Communities of Practice for Health Visiting project
[4].
An Evidence Hub provides novel visual analytics designed to give insight into, and provoke reflection on, users’ knowlege-building activity. It is designed for use by practitioner communities/networks engaged in informal learning, and by students in more formal educational contexts.
The Evidence Hub is designed to answer questions such as:
• Who in my region is working on this problem?
• Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme?
• What are the key challenges we’re facing?
• Who has potential solutions to these, and what’s the evidence that they work?
• What evidence-based claims can we make with confidence?
• What are the most controversial issues?