Desirability, Frameworks, and Socio-Technical Environments for "Want-To" Participation

There is overwhelming evidence that people will become more engaged in working, learning, and collaborating, if they “want-to” rather than they “have-to” participate in these activities. Frameworks are needed to understand and support the transition from a hierarchically organized, curriculum dominated, plan and push world to a world in which people have possibilities for co-creation and pursuing their interests in the context of personally meaning problems. Based on insight from different fields (including research in behavioral economics, learning sciences and an analysis of success and failure models), design requirements are articulated and analyzed to provide people with more opportunities by redesign working, learning, and collaborating so that they resemble more the success models in which people engage in “want-to” participation.