1 Fostering collective intelligence education Jaime Meza 1, *, Josep M. Monguet 1, Francisca Grimón 2 , Alex Trejo 3 1 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 2 Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela 3 Onsanity, Barcelona, Spain Abstract New educational models are necessary to update learning environments to the digitally shared communication and information. Collective intelligence is an emerging field that already has a significant impact in many areas and will have great implications in education, not only from the side of new methodologies but also as a challenge for education. This paper proposes an approach to a collective intelligence model of teaching using Internet to combine two strategies: idea management and real time assessment in the class. A digital tool named Fabricius has been created supporting these two elements to foster the collaboration and engagement of students in the learning process. As a result of the research we propose a list of KPI trying to measure individual and collective performance. We are conscious that this is just a first approach to define which aspects of a class following a course can be qualified and quantified. Keywords: Collective intelligence Education, learning, patterns, KPI. Received on 26 November 2015, accepted on 04 May 2016, published on  -XQH  Copyright © 2016 Jaime Meza et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. doi: 10.4108/HDL * Corresponding author. jaimemeza1@gmail.com 1. Introduction Education is a huge and multidisciplinary field that has been studied from different epistemological perspectives looking for new challenges to improve student’s performance. Therefore educational institutions are constantly searching new models to improve the results of their learning processes. There is a lot of evidence about the fact that multimedia and Internet based educational tools have potential to improve student learning[1] and there is also evidence about the advantages of distance learning [2]. However education and capacitation in a networked society is not just an extension of the usual capacity building. Besides classical technological competences new ones linked to accessing and processing knowledge are necessary, particularly collective intelligence. New capabilities cannot be acquired through the old ways of education: collective capacities building needs new contents and methods[3] Collective intelligence CI is defined as the capacity of human groups to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate and invent [4]. Although CI is not a new idea, its combination with ICT tools is setting this paradigm as an exciting and emerging area [5][6]. Several authors have reported about collective intelligence and its impact with the ICT tools in the educational field [7],[8],[9],[10],[11], moreover, some researchers have generated papers for refer to the measure of collective intelligence. Engelbart (1995) propose the Collective IQ, term proposed by refers to the measure of a group's collective capacity[12], Woolley et al. (2010) put forward the Factor C [13], Barlow, J. B., & Dennis, A. R.(2014) conclude that a Factor C defined by Woolley et al. (2010) is not a general factor of collective intelligence inherent to groups under all conditions, but it is a measure of a group’s general ability to work well in face-to-face settings [14]. This research describes the teaching model based on Fabricius, an ICT tool developed with the general idea of integrating into one framework the two relevant aspects in learning by doing: management of ideas and real time assessment. The general objective of our research is to contribute in the identification of collective intelligence patterns in the behaviour of the class. The first part of this article is devoted to the introduction of collective intelligence education concepts and the Internet ($ ($,(QGRUVHG7UDQVDFWLRQV RQ e/earning Research Article on | Volume | Issue | e EAI European Alliance for Innovation