📖 PhD Dissertation: Formalization of Social Knowledge through a Personal Learning Environment approach [2011] - PhD Day

1. Università Politecnica delle Marche
Facoltà di Ingegneria
Via Brecce Bianche 60131 - Ancona, Italy
Scienze dell’Ingegneria
E-learning
Dottorando: Flavio
Manganello
Tutors: Prof. Tommaso Leo, Prof.
Kinshuk
DIIGA
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dell'Automazione
Ancona, 18 febbraio 2011
Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in
Curriculum
FORMALIZATION OF SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE
THROUGH
A PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT APPROACH

2. Learning
Personal Learning Environment
Knowledge Management
formalization
social networking
communities
social knowledge
Social
implicit
learner-centered
empowerment
knowledge context
tacit
adaptivity
tools
Technology
teamwork
context
explicit
personalization
filtering
semantic
Personal Knowlesge Space
learner profiling
experts
Pedagogy
networks
constructivism

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Complexity
The possibilities of the Web 2.0 and Mush-Up PLEs
increase the amount of information available on
the Internet
COMPLEXITY
CHAOS
 Information overload
 Lost in the Social Space
RISKS

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Selectivity
The selection of information is a crucial
process in learning and in knowledge creation
Social Semantic Web
Social Network Modeling

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Opportunity
Identification of meaningful patterns
 Information organization
 Interaction management
 Context definition
FORMALIZATION OF SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE

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PersonalKnowledgeSpace
 Personal Knowledge Space
▫ Personal environment where e-learning meets knowledge
management
▫ Management of connections
▫ The PKS is the environment where a learner can manage
knowledge, with the guidance of an expert or a teacher if
needed
 Learners participating as novices in a community
where communication and interaction with experts
should lead to shared understandings
▫ A first course of Automatic Control at the UNIVPM,
2009-2010
▫ The results obtained allow to define possible scenarios
of iterable educational experiences

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ModelArchitecture
A flow of connections (people
and information) aggregated
from a number of sources
selected by the learner:
•WWW: blogs, news, Youtube,
Twitter, Slideshare, Flickr,
communities, social
bookimarking, …
•MLE, VLE: public information,
syllabus, courses’ updates, …
PKS
Processing
&
Filtering
Learner Profile
Learning Contexts
Learner Profile
Learning Contexts
Meaningful
selection of
recommended
and
personalized
connections
Meaningful
selection of
recommended
and
personalized
connections
Social Networking
Tags
Ratings and
comments
Friends and group
Presentation
Contexts wievs
Maps views
Timeline views
Widgets
Negotiation &
Reification
Mapping
Interactive writing
Planning & Design
Scheduling
Discussing
Organizing
Tools
Learner
Managed
Cloud

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Social Networking
Tags
Ratings and comments
Friends and group
Visualization
Maps views
Timeline views
Faceted views
Negotiation
(discussion, reification)
Mapping
Interactive writing
Planning & Design
Scheduling
Discussing
Organizing
E-LEARNING
KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT
e-Learning&KnowledgeManagement
LEARNING RESEARCH

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Originality
 E-learning systems become a fundamental support
for lifelong learning
▫ skills acquired by learners and
▫ adoption by teachers of teaching methods that
promote the empowerment of the learners
 Focusing on particular technologies that may help in
drawing new scenarios for representing and
managing social knowledge in a given knowledge
context
▫ Social Semantic Web
▫ Semantic Web Services

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Benefits&PracticalApplications
 Learning models for supporting communities in different
settings (formal and informal)
 Teaching strategies for learners’ empowerment
 Learning activities teamwork-based
 Community of practice
 Social Networking tools
 Security and control of interactions
ORGANIZATIONS
Lifelong learning among their
professionals in different settings
UNIVERSITIES
Promoting a life long learning
approach among learners
LEARNING
RESEARCH

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Researchstudent
 Athabasca University, Canada
▫ From June 2009 to March 2010
▫ Research student at the School of Computing and
Information Systems (SCIS) of AU, Professor Kinshuk

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Acknowledgements
Thank you for your kind attention
Flavio Manganello
f.manganello@univpm.it
Special thanks for supporting my research to
Prof. Leo - Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italia
Prof. Kinshuk - Athabasca University, Canada