Role of Context in Social Creativity for the Design of Digital Resources

Abstract

This paper presents a study of social creativity in the collaborative design of digital educational resources with a new technology enabling the meshing of text with dynamic digital widgets. Our focus was on understanding processes of social creativity occurring in communities of interest, gathering together members from diverse communities of practice, taking the context of four socio- technical environments seriously into account. Our hitherto achieved results from the design of one digital resource in the French community of interest show a deep interconnectedness between emergent creativity and contextual issues such as connectivity to curriculum and to local situations as a forum for student mathematization.