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Sally-Anne Barnes

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Sally-Anne is a Senior Research Fellow at Warwick Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick. As a qualitative researcher, her research interests focus on: career guidance theory and practice; contexts of technology implementation and application; and ICT based innovations in learning.  She is centrally involved in the qualitative, longitudinal case study investigating the nature of effective guidance, and research into individual career development, learning and continuing vocational training. Current research includes the development of LMI for careers guidance practitioners, plus researching the implementation of technology to support CEIAG services for young people and the professional development of careers guidance practitioners.

Activities

Careers Talk - a new web site for career guidance published
Associate Partner Event for the Careers Sector at Warwick
Associate Partner Meeting Careers Guidance
Case Studies for Knowledge Maturing in Organizations
MATURE paper on interview study receives STELLAR Stakeholder Distinct Award at ECTEL 2010
Knowledge Maturing in Europe - results of a large European study
Study on Knowledge Maturing in Europe
Assuring Quality for Social Learning in Content Networks
I-KNOW 2009
Ethnographic Studies have started

Publications

2010

Kaschig, Andreas, Maier, Ronald, Sandow, Alexander, Lazoi, Mariangela, Barnes, Sally-Anne, Bimrose, Jenny, Bradley, Claire, Brown, Alan, Kunzmann, Christine, Mazarakis, Athanasios, Schmidt, Andreas
Knowledge Maturing Activities and Practices Fostering Organisational Learning: Results of an Empirical Study
In: Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 28 - October 1, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 6383, Springer, 2010, pp. 151-166

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Abstract Knowledge work is performed in all occupations and across all industries. The level of similarity of knowledge work allows for designing supporting tools that can be widely used. In this paper an activity-based perspective towards knowledge work is taken. Based on findings from a previous ethnographically-informed study, we identified valuable activities to be supported in order to increase knowledge maturing inside companies. The goal of this paper is to contribute to which knowledge maturing activities are deemed important, so that they can be supported by IT services. Quantitative and qualitative data have been collected in 126 organisations of different size, sector and knowledge intensity. Important feedback and issues emerged and need to be managed in order to support success in the knowledge maturing activities that allow improvement of organisational learning through the dissemination and application of the most appropriate knowledge.

2009

Weber, Nicolas, Schoefegger, Karin, Bimrose, Jenny, Ley, Tobias, Lindstaedt, Stefanie, Brown, Alan, Barnes, Sally-Anne
Knowledge Maturing in the Semantic MediaWiki: A design study in career guidance
In: Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines. Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2009), Nice, France, 2009

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Barnes, Sally-Anne, Bimrose, Jenny, Brown, Alan, Feldkamp, Daniela, Kaschig, Andreas, Kunzmann, Christine, Maier, Ronald, Nelkner, Tobias, Sandow, Alexander, Thalmann, Stefan
Knowledge Maturing at Workplaces of Knowledge Workers: Results of an Ethnographically Informed Study
In: 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW '09), Graz, Austria, 2009, pp. 51-61

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Abstract Maturity models are popular instruments used, e.g., to rate capabilities of maturing elements and select appropriate actions to take the elements to a higher level of maturity. Their application areas are wide spread and range from cognitive science to business applications and engineering. Although there are many maturity models reported in scientific and non-scientific literature, the act of how to develop a maturity model is for the most part unexplored. Many maturity models simply – and vaguely – build on their, often well-known, predecessors without critical discourse about how appropriate the assumptions are that form the basis of these models. This research sheds some light on the construction of maturity models by analysing 16 representative maturity models with the help of a structured content analysis. The results are transformed into a set of questions which can be used for the (re-)creation of maturity models and are answered with the help of the case example of a knowledge maturity model. Furthermore, a definition of the term maturity model is developed from the study’s results.

2008

Attwell, Graham, Bimrose, Jenny, Brown, Alan, Barnes, Sally-Anne
Maturing learning: Mash up Personal Learning Environments
In: Wild, Fridolin and Kalz, Marco and Palmér, Matthias (eds.): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mashup Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE08) Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17, 2008. In conjunction with the 3rd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'08), Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 18-19, 2008, CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 388, 2008

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Abstract This paper provides an overview of the work of the Connexions Kent Guidance P.A.s and considers their needs in terms of knowledge maturing and development. It goes on to examine why a PLE could assist in this process and outlines the different functions of a PLE. Then a scenario is outlined illustrating the possible use of the PLE. Finally, a Mashup approach to developing the PLE is considered looking at the different possibilities for developing services for the P.A.s and developing and supporting a sustainable community of practice.