Learn-B: A Social Analytics-enabled Tool for Self-regulated Workplace Learning
1. Learn-B: A Social Analytics-enabled
Tool for Self-regulated
Workplace Learning
Melody Siadaty1,2, D. Gašević 1,2, J. Jovanović3, N. Milikić3 , Z. Jeremić3,
L. Ali2, A. Giljanović2, M. Hatala2
1 Athabasca University, Canada
2 Simon Fraser University, Canada
3 University of Belgrade, Serbia
2. Outline
• Research Challenge
• Pedagogical Framework
• Learn-B
• Learning Analytics in Learn-B
– Usage Information
– Progress-o-meters
– Knowledge Sharing Profiles
– Motivational Messages
• Current and Future Work
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3. Research challenge:
support organizationally-embedded personal
learning at workplace
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4. Learning at the Workplace
• Workplace learning is informal
and autonomous
• Workplace learning is
contextual
• Workplace learning has a
social nature
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5. The Pedagogical Framework
• Based on Nonaka&Takeuchi’s
Knowledge Building Model
I. Nonaka, & H. Takeuchi, “The knowledge-creating company: How Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation.”
Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Extended with
– SRL practices
– Social embeddedness
– Organizational Context
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6. Learn-B
• Learning Biosis = learning as a way of life
• Tool aimed at supporting SRL practices in
intentional, non-formal learning in
organizational contexts
• Makes use of ontologies for data linking
and annotation
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7. The support offered by Learn-B:
– Contextual recommendation of competences
– Recommendation of learning paths, learning activities
and knowledge objects
– Knowledge sharing profiles
– Provision of Usage Information
– Social Wave
– Progress-o-meter
– Activity Streams
–…
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8. The role of Learning Analytics
• beneficial to users in every step of their SRL processes
at workplace, i.e. when
– identifying their learning needs and setting their goals
• To get aware how other employees with similar organizational
positions have defined their goals
– monitoring their learning progress
• To compare it with that of their colleagues
– Sharing/documenting their learning experiences
• to observe how actively their colleagues are sharing their learning
experiences and comparing it with their own sharing activities
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9. The role of Learning Analytics
• Also :
– Supports Harmonization of individual and
organizational learning goals
• Enables the organization to better align its learning
objectives with those of its employees by knowing about
their learning practices
– Enhances the motivation of individuals to take part in
learning/knowledge building activities and sharing
their experiences
• by providing them with feedback from the social context
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10. Learning Analytics in Learn-B
• Usage Information
provides users with analytics representing the collective knowledge
around a resource and assists them in planning their learning processes
– Statistics
a set of various visualization charts
– Social Waves
– Collective stand (reflections, ratings and tags )
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14. Learning Analytics in Learn-B
• Progress-o-meters
– Individual progress
shows users their progress flow in achieving their defined
learning goals and the competences included within those
goals
– Comparison with the collective
provide users with a comparison of their progress flow with that
of their colleagues who have the same learning goal / are working
on the same competence
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16. Learning Analytics in Learn-B
• Knowledge Sharing Profiles
– Individual Sharing
informs users of their reflections, in terms of sharing their
learning resources, within an organization.
– Comparison with the collective
Users can compare their sharing activities with the average
within their organization
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18. Learning Analytics in Learn-B
• Motivational Messages
provide users with personalized messages indicating
to what extent the collective has shared their
personal preferences.
(these preferences are used to adjust the recommendations generated
for the user.)
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20. Current and future work
• If and to what extend the Analytics features of Learn-B, along
with its other functionalities, address the existing challenges
in supporting workplace learning.
• Further development work
– support for documenting and sharing learning experiences
– support for collaborative learning
• An evaluation of Learn-B in 3 different workplace settings
over a 2 month period
– Identified issues in the conducted user study inform
our further research
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21. Thank You!
melody_siadaty@sfu.ca
Please visit us for a demo of Learn-B
during the conference reception
today, 5 -7 pm
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22. The IntelLEO Ontologies
http://intelleo.eu/index.php?id=183
• Learning Context Ontology
• Activities Ontology
• User Model Ontology
• Competences Ontology
• Competence Management Ontology
• Workflow Ontology
• Organization Ontology
• Annotations Ontology
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