Womble will enable workers to appropriate the mobile phone as a Personal Learning Maturing Environment (PLME). It provides contextualising of WBL problem-solving, interaction and knowledge maturing via a user-owned mobile PLE. The demonstrator develops a prototype Womble (Work Oriented MoBile Learning Environment). Specifically, the project will extend the current implementation of mPLE and structured learning dialogue frameworks, such as Dialogue Games and InterLoc, providing worker with a joined-up mobile PLME services. A social software ‘substrate’ and multi-user / multi-media spaces will provide workers with the ability collaborate with co-workers. At the most basic level, Womble services will, for example, allow workers to tag fellow work colleagues (contacts); when a problem arises this service will enable collaborative problem solving. At a more advanced stage (in the future) a ‘lite’ dialogue game service, that can be linked to the tagging of personal competencies, will be available to scaffold workers in their active collaboration and ‘on the spot’ problem solving.

Publications

2009