Learning Network Services for Professional Development

✍ Scribed by Rob Koper (auth.), Rob Koper (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 427
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A "Learning Network" is a community of people who help each other to better understand and handle certain events and concepts in work or life. As a result – and sometimes also as an aim – participating in learning networks stimulates personal development, a better understanding of concepts and events, career development, and employability. "Learning Network Services" are Web services that are designed to facilitate the creation of distributed Learning Networks and to support the participants with various functions for knowledge exchange, social interaction, assessment and competence development in an effective way.

The book presents state-of-the-art insights into the field of Learning Networks and Web-based services which can facilitate all kinds of processes within these networks. The main emphasis of the contributions is to explain what services a Learning Network requires and what the reader should do to design and run Learning Network Services, including guidelines on how to evaluate the effectiveness of these services.

This book is a rich source of information for practitioners and professional developers who want to stimulate learning by professionals through web-based social interaction. Managers of educational institutions and training companies will find many ideas about possible services to offer. At the same time, it is an excellent introduction for other researchers in the field, and for students interested in the learning sciences or technology-enhanced learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-15
From Lurker to Active Participant....Pages 17-25
Guidelines to Foster Interaction in Online Communities....Pages 27-42
Knowledge Dating and Knowledge Sharing in Ad-Hoc Transient Communities....Pages 43-55
How to Trigger Emergence and Self-Organisation in Learning Networks....Pages 57-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-74
Individualised Navigation Services in Learning Networks....Pages 75-93
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Personalised Recommender Systems in Learning Networks....Pages 95-113
How to Set Up Simulations for Designing Light-Weight Personalised Recommender Systems....Pages 115-150
How to Find and Follow Suitable Learning Paths....Pages 151-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-169
A Process-Oriented Approach to Support Multi-Role Multi-Stage E-Assessment: A Case Study....Pages 171-194
Placement Services for Learning Networks....Pages 195-208
Tools and Techniques for Placement Experiments....Pages 209-223
A Validation Scenario for a Placement Service in Learning Networks....Pages 225-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-240
Towards Contextualized Learning Services....Pages 241-253
Mobile Social Software to Support Authenticity....Pages 255-272
Supporting Authentic Learning Contexts Beyond Classroom Walls....Pages 273-288
Awareness and Reflection in Mobile Learning Support....Pages 289-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-312
A Conceptual Model of Learning Networks....Pages 313-328
The TENCompetence Infrastructure: A Learning Network Implementation....Pages 329-357
Front Matter....Pages 359-360
The Personal Competence Manager....Pages 361-368
Front Matter....Pages 359-360
Personal Development Planner....Pages 369-377
Learning Design Authoring Tools in the TENCompetence Project....Pages 379-387
IMS QTI Authoring....Pages 389-396
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Conclusion of the Book....Pages 399-410
Back Matter....Pages 411-414

✦ Subjects

Computers and Education; Educational Technology; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Models and Principles