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LTRI pitches MATURE to Prince Andrew in Shoreditch, London

Submitted by john.cook on February 1, 2012 - 16:35

Just had a surprisingly engaging visit to Shoreditch Accelerator #AccTheDuke & Learning Technology Research Institute #LTRI by HRH the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. I made a 2 minute elevator pitch for #mature-ip http://slidesha.re/y9nyqW But wide ranging discussions were had with our Vice-Chancellor looking on. Here is the text of my 2 minute pitch (from a People Tagging perspective):

knowledge-maturing.com launched for releasing MATURE results

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on January 31, 2012 - 13:40

knowledge-maturing.com 

Right for the LearnTec 2012, we have launched the first version of our knowledge-maturing.com web site that presents the offerings of our project to interested companies and other organizations. It shows our offering in terms of technology solutions (most of which are or will be available as open source), consulting approaches and training offerings as well as publications for the scientific community.

New Flyer on Knowledge Maturing Model

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on January 24, 2012 - 15:01

Two journal articles accepted

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on January 23, 2012 - 15:53

Recently, two journal articles have been accepted after a lengthy reviewing process. They summarize two major areas of contribution of MATURE: iterative and agile design processes/design-based research and agile competence management and ontology maturing.

Simone Braun, Christine Kunzmann, Andreas Schmidt
Semantic People Tagging & Ontology Maturing: An Enterprise Social Media Approach to Competence Management
International Journal on Knowledge and Learning

STELLAR Roundtable on Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning (SoMobNet)

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on December 4, 2011 - 21:12

MATURE contributed to the STELLAR (The European Network of Excellence in TEL) Theme Team on “Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning” (SoMobNet) International Roundtable at the Institute of Education in London on 21st November 2011. Both John Cook and Graham Attwell presented results from the MATURE demonstrators.   

Graham Attwell: Using Mobiles for Networked Learning and Knowledge Sharing for Careers Information, Advice and Guidance

Knowledge Maturing for Organizational Development: A Workshop with IFIP

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on November 30, 2011 - 23:14

 

MATURE organized a joint workshop together with the IFIP AGORA initiative to explore the potential of applying the knowledge maturing model landscape to organizational development problems.
 
The International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) is a world wide acting umbrella organization to the National Societies of Computer Science. IFIP is associated to UNESCO and is also part of the Associated Partner Network of MATURE. IFIP’s president Leon Strous, who emphatically invited the representatives of the different technical committees of IFIP to participate in the workshop, stressed that there is a growing need for collaboration between the various IFIP groups and with international acting partners (international bodies and institutions, industry and business, key decision makers, member societies). In order to accommodate such collaboration, TC-3 of IFIP launched the AGORA initiative that aimed to implement a dynamic methodology for initiating cooperative projects for individual competence development in conjunction with Lifelong Learning. 
 
Together with MATURE the workshop in Barcelona should support those goals. Furthermore, the workshop should contribute to a process of evolutionary change inside IFIP in order to improve the cooperation between the TCs and to generate synergy of action especially with regard to transversal themes of the information and knowledge society, that are not just technology based. Examples are besides Lifelong Learning e.g. the themes of Security and Trust, E-Governance and Ethics that have been also discussed at the Summits on the Information Society during the last years. 

MATURE work presented to UK Gov Department for Business Innovation and Skills

Submitted by john.cook on November 10, 2011 - 15:49

John Cook from MATURE & LTRI joined the UK Research Council funded TEL Group visit to UK Government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) at the Department’s HQ in Westminster. The visit was well received and took place on 3rd November, 2011. Messages put over on the day by John:

MATURE at WikiSym 2011

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on November 9, 2011 - 10:32

 WikiSym 2011

The success of wikis depends very strongly on the user participation and the willingness to edit. Athanasios Mazarakis and Clemens van Dinther from MATURE presented results at the WikiSym conference in San Francisco how to foster participation with feedback mechanisms. WikiSym is the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide.
 
The results about the feedback mechanisms have been collected in field experiments about course wikis. With different experimental treatments it was possible to show that:
 
  • Feedback can help to prioritize to knowledge maturing activities
  • Foster participation in wikis
  • A social ranking can even more help to raise awareness for knowledge exchange
Contacts to the Wikimedia Foundation have been established as these result seem promising as well for the Wikipedia project.
 

MATURE and competence development: Professional Training Facts 2011

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on October 19, 2011 - 14:28

MATURE has once again been invited to this year's Professional Training Facts 2011. Christine Kunzmann has organized a session on Motivational and Affective Aspects in Competence Development in joint initiative with the MIRROR project. In this session, Verónica Rivera Pelayo presented approaches to capturing affective state from the MIRROR project, associate partner Josef Hofer-Alfeis presents his experiences on employee motivation, and Christine Kunzmann presented conclusions from the research in MIRROR and MATURE.


 

Furthermore Graham Attwell gave an inspiring talk on Mobile Learning: Using Mobiles for Learning, Developing and Sharing Knowledge

 

2nd Workshop on Motivational and Affective Aspects in TEL

Submitted by Andreas.Schmidt on October 9, 2011 - 21:49

In a joint activity with the MIRROR and the IntelLEO projects, MATURE has organized a second edition of the MATEL workshop at this year's ECTEL 2011 in Palermo, Italy.

Based on results from these projects and a discussion with the workshop participants, the following research challenges were identified:

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