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Work orientied mobile learning environment (WOMBLE)

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WOMBLE

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

Graham Attwell, John Cook, Andrew Ravenscroft
Appropriating technologies for contextual knowledge: Mobile Personal Learning Environments
In: Miltiadis D. Lytras and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos and Ernesto Damiani and David E. Avison and Ambjörn Naeve and David G. Horner (eds.): 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009), Crete, Greece, (2009), Springer, 2009, pp. 15-25

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Abstract The development of Technology Enhanced Learning has been dominated by the education paradigm. However social software and new forms of knowledge development and collaborative meaning making are challenging such domination. Technology is increasingly being used to mediate the development of work process knowledge and these processes are leading to the evolution of rhizomatic forms of community based knowledge development. Technologies can support different forms of contextual knowledge development through Personal Learning Environments. The appropriation or shaping of technologies to develop Personal Learning Environments may be seen as an outcome of learning in itself. Mobile devices have the potential to support situated and context based learning, as exemplified in projects undertaken at London Metropolitan University. This work provides the basis for the development of a Work Orientated MoBile Learning Environment (WOMBLE).

Seminar on Personal Learning and Maturing Environments

Submitted by GrahamAttwell on October 8, 2009 - 20:22

In September, we organised a symposium on Personal Learning Environments at the the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009), "an international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a better world for all."