Talk given at WCC2010 in Brisbane (KCKS 2010); Title: EU Project MATURE / R&D RG DDI: ICT-Support for Knowledge Maturing in Learning Organizations and Communities

1. EU Project MATURE / R&D RG DDI:
ICT-Support for Knowledge Maturing in
Learning Organizations and
Communities
University of Paderborn
Computer Science Education Group
Johannes Magenheim (presenter)

2. Outline
• MATURE – Short Overview
• Knowledge Maturing Processes
• Knowledge Maturing Model
• Requirements for a PLME and OLME
• Prototypes
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3. Consortium
Coordinator Application
Partners
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Associate
Research & Technology
Partner
Partners Network
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4. Demands of Industrial Partners:
Knowledge Maturing Process
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
Source: Project LearnKnowMat
MATURE - Overview
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5. Motivation
• Agility of enterprises and organizations as a key success
factor requires
– continuous individual competence development
– continuous learning of the organization and harvesting of the
employees‘ creativity and competency to act
– continuous Lifelong Learning
• Today‘s problems:
– separation of working and learning
– lack of passing on learned knowledge of individuals within the
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
organization
– disruptions between different organizational systems
– transition of emerging topics into organizational scope is not well
supported
MATURE - Overview
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6. Main Idea
• Cumbersome organizational top-down
approaches to supporting or „managing“ learning
have largely failed to deliver
• Web 2.0 bottom-up approaches have motivated
people to engage in informal learning and
knowledge sharing activities
• Why not combine the two:
– how to leverage intrinsic motivation to contribute to
learning efforts
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– how to foster effective contribution of individual learning
activities to organizational goals and thus enable
sustainable impact
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7. Objectives of MATURE
• an analysis of real-world maturing practices and
development of a sound general conceptual
model
– including ways to overcome barriers to it
– including motivational and social barriers
• a Personal Learning & Maturing Environment
• an Organizational Learning & Maturing
Environment
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• reusable Maturing Services
– for seeding and reseeding,
– and creating awareness of maturing-relevant activities
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8. Need for service-oriented infrastructure
• Such mashup toolsets like the PLME and OLME
have to be flexible and extensible
• This will only work with a service-oriented
infrastructure that provides basic and rather
generic functionality
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
• But how should such an infrastructure look like?
What are conceptual foundations?
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9. Knowledge Maturing Process Model v1
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
MATURE – Knowledge Maturing ProcessesNetworks
MATURE - Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge
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10. Knowledge Maturing Process Model v1 (2)
process
maturing
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
MATURE – Knowledge Maturing Processes
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11. Notion of Knowledge Maturing
Separating different Issues
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
MATURE – Knowledge Maturing Model
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12. Source: EU IP Project MATURE
MATURE – Knowledge Maturing Model
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13. The MATURE
Vision
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
MATURE – Requirements for PLME / OLME
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14. Two levels of activities in OLME & PLME
• PLME: personal view on activities
– Single user at front end (personal environment)
– Support of individual learning by fostering the understanding of
processes, contents, relations to other entities
– The user searches for and creates artefacts & sociofacts
– Support a person in communication and collaboration
• OLME: organisational view on
activities
– Monitoring organisational activities
– Providing (many) employees with valuable information by e.g.
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connecting artefacts to sociofacts
– Guiding the users to improve artefacts, sociofacts & cognifacts through
collaboration
– Make implicit knowledge explicit by dissemination
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15. P
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Activities in PLME M
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16. P
Activities in PLME L
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Artefacts Artefacts
Sociofacts Cognifacts
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17. Phases of Knowledge Maturing
Achievement
Refinement
Dissemination
Source: EU IP Project MATURE
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Relation between PLME & OLME E
Communities
Achievement Organisationally
Improvement Motivated Learning
Dissemination
Organisational
Learning Driven
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Personally
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19. Artefact networks
Wiki
Blog
Source: Wolfgang Reinhard, UPB
Microblog
Requirements for PLME / OLME
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20. Social networks
Source: Wolfgang Reinhard, UPB
Requirements for PLME / OLME
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21. Artefact networks
Wiki
Blog
Source: Wolfgang Reinhard, UPB
Microblog
Requirements for PLME / OLME
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22. Source: Wolfgang Reinhard, UPB
Analyzing different levels of communication and
cooperation.
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Requirements for PLME / OLME
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23. Use of free
Software, NLP, SA
Ontologies
Relations
Source: Wolfgang Reinhard, UPB
Java, OSGi, OWL,
RDF, Jena
Requirements for PLME / OLME
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24. Widgets
Source: Tobias Nelkner, UPB
Prototypes
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25. Widget Server
Source: Tobias Nelkner, UPB
Prototypes
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26. Thank you
Prof. Dr. J. Magenheim (presenter)
Dipl. Inf. Tobias Nelkner
Dipl. Inf. Wolfgang Reinhard
University of Paderborn
Computer Science Education Group
Fuerstenallee 11
33102 Paderborn (Germany)
jsm@uni-paderborn.de
http://ddi.upb.de
Sources:
http://mature-ip.eu
http://artefact-actor-networks.net
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5364883&tag=1
http://know-center.at/download_extern/papers/JointECTEL2010_6PagerV5.pdf
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