First principle: Open collaboration

TALCIE Resources is a platform for open collaboration with the goals of building and sharing a collective experience. Any member of the community should be able to read it, edit it and add to it. Those new to the concept of collaboration are encouraged to check out Dan Tapscott and Anthony Williams's book Wikinomics as a starting point. Those interested in its specific application to business education - not the same as creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, but still of interest - are encouraged to check out Philip Evan's The Wiki Factor as a starting point.

Second principle: Building understanding

Unlike Wikipedia, TALCIE Resources has an additional and equally important layer designed to share the collective experience through an educational or learning framework (consisting of teaching and learning activities, topics and courses). The idea is to help participants build an understanding - not just to present them with data and information. Additionally, this layer is designed to incorporate content existing outside of the TALCIE system, resulting in a very rich learning experience. To date, the design of the educational layer has relied on the principles presented by John Biggs in Teaching for Quality Learning at University.

Third principle: Simplicity

In order to encourage adoption, TALCIE should be as simple and easy to use as possible. Much of the design reflects this basic principle. The decision was also made to use the Google Apps infrastructure for several reasons: it's free; it has a familiar look and feel; it easily handles collaboration and multimedia content; it required no development and requires little to no maintenance, thereby freeing its collaborators to focus on developing the best possible open educational content and resources.