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Personal profiling to stimulate participation in Learning Networks Francis Brouns, Open Universiteit NederlandePortfolio, 19 October, 2007, Maastricht
Overview
• Learning Networks
• Ad hoc transient communities
• Peer support incentives to promote participation and contribution
Background
• Open Universiteit Nederland– Distance education– Lifelong learning
• Educational Technology Expertise Centre– Research Educational Technology– Learning Networks for Lifelong Learning
Team
• Learning Networks, Rob Koper
• Peter van Rosmalen, Liesbeth Kester, Peter Sloep, Francis Brouns, Marlies Bitter, Adriana Berlanga, Kees Pannekeet, Marcel de Croock, Fred de Vries, Sibren Fetter
Lifelong learning
• Learning Networks
• Ad hoc transient community
Learning Network
• Collection of people and resources
• Shared goal of learning in particular domain
• Supported by technology and ICT
Ad hoc transient community
• Ad hoc: solve a particular, delimited problem
• Transient: disappears once solved
• Community: group of people supported by ICT
Essence of the approach
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What makes a community tick?
• Social space
• People’s characteristics
• Community characteristics
Personal context and trust
ThesisForum
• Online thesis forum • Graduate social, art and law students• Define their topic - research outline• Barrier for peer interaction, sharing initial
thesis plans was not knowing each other well enough.
• Peer students asked for personal context information to get to know each other aside of functional triggers.
Personal EXPertise Inventory
• Format for integrated personal and functional introduction of the person, his expertises and expectations as well as his preferences
• Designed for Virtual Business project • Got used over the years across various projects:
European Virtual Seminar, Academic Informatics Competences project, etc
• Is used outside the project as well for a quick intro to a student’s own profile
PeXpi
• Instrument to show to others:– Who am I– What do I know– What do I want to achieve– What are my interests– My agenda preferences– My communication preferences– How I want to share expertise with you
PeXpi in European Virtual Seminar (EVS)
• Virtual team project based learning on sustainability issues (60-70 students)
• International: 13 countries, 20 institutes• Multidisciplinairy teams (4-6p)• Working together 4 month.Faciltation social interaction via:- Profiling- Dialogue enhancers
Summary
• Lifelong learning in learning networks
• Ad hoc transient community combined with personal profiles
Further information
• TENCompetence: http://www.tencompetence.org
• Learning Networks: http://www.learningnetworks.org
• Francis Brouns, [email protected]
• Marlies Bitter, [email protected]