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Understanding humans and computers as a system
Making the system smarter and more productive
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Villemard, 1910: À l' École, Bibliotèque national de France
http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b1.htm
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How do people learn at the workplace?
• Ask colleagues, search for help, try
things out, learn from experience
• Learning is informal, connected to
work practices, multi-episodic, just-
in time [Hart 2011, Kooken 2009]
How do learning technologies look like?
• follow traditional training models
• based on direct classroom instruction
and courses transfered to the screen
[Kraiger 2008]
highly effective
individualized
contextualized
motivating
does not scale
not persistent
few benefit
expensive
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Explaining the use of a new
construction technique and
materials on site
Making video material available
on site through QR tagsUse of video recording and
annotation
Further questions on the use of
the technique connected to site
Material, questions and best
practices collected and
discussed
Collection transformed into
instructional material to
enhance traditional training
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Two practice staff visit a
NHS training on a new
guideline for dementia
Staff collect materials from training and
further research for their revalidation
Other staff
ask questions
about the guideline
Material and questions evolve
into a local implementation
plan for the practice
Other regional practices and the
CSU join the effort to learn
about implementation
problems and practices
ImplementationPlan
Guideline
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construction-workers/
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http://learning-layers.eu/focus-groups-context/
context cards
Personas
user stories
stories of contextual factors
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E-portfolio Bits and Pieces
Boundary objects AchSo!
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Video: http://vimeo.com/84383004
Software: http://developer.learning-layers.eu/tools/ach-so/
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Software: http://developer.learning-layers.eu/tools/bits-and-pieces/
Running Demo
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Interaction Layers: An Ecosystem of Tools
Social Semantic Layer
Integration through Shared Meaning
Interacting with
Physical Objects
Interacting
with People
Interacting with
Digital Materials
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Who When Where What ... ... ... ... ... ...
An Artefact
Actor Network
User
Profile
Resource
Profile
Topic
Modeling
Recommended
Resource
Each interaction
increases the network ...
... and is tracked in the history
Trust and Social
Network
Traces of the Network History
Knowledge is built by people
interacting with other people and artefacts
New Information displayed to
Support User Interactions
Intelligent Services
derive new information
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Whom to ask? What to read and watch? Who are the experts? What do people talk about?What’s the quality?
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• How do you describe
this resource?
• A mechanisms that
guesses the words that
you will use
• Two step process:
– First generate meaning
– Then produce words
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Dementia
Guideline
NHS
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• Designing technology that blends into work
practices and supports informal learning is a
major challenge
• An ecosystem of tools can be integrated by
technologies that learn about meaning in a
social context
• Technololgy that makes the human computer
system smarter and more productive
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Basiskarte: digitale-europakarte.de
Project Coordination
Learning Technology Research
Regional Application Clusters
Scaling Partners
Technology Partners
Health Care – Leeds
Construction &
Building – Bremen
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Tobias Ley
Tallinn University
Institute of Informatics
tley@tlu.ee
skype tobias_ley
http://tobiasley.wordpress.com
Learning Layers Project
ICT EU-FP7, 12mEUR, 2012-2016
Web: http://learning-layers.eu
Software: http://github.com/learning-layers

Learning Layers: Social Semantic Technologies for Workplace Learning