Workpackage 5: Brokerage Systems and Learning Management

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Workpackage 5Brokerage Systems and Learning
Management
Kickoff meeting, Hanover
2003-12-02
Proposed Work Plan - Call for Participation

• Proposed by
• Ambjörn Naeve Bernd SimonJuan Quemada

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Motivation

• The whole power of science is the power of
  shared ideas.(Paul Jones)
• Universities generate content every day through
  their courses and seminars. Then they throw it
  away.(Dennis Tsichritzis)
• Every knowledge-based organization law firm,
  hospital, or professional services firm wastes
  time, money and human energy recreating
  intellectual assets.
• (Thomas H. Davenport)

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Current Issues

• A few brokerage systems (knowledge markets) do
  already exist in the education domain, but lack
  wide adoption
• An increasing number of brokerage systems are
  currently being built (more than 10 brokers alone
  in primary/secondary ed in Austria, )
• Lack of interoperability among various
  initiatives
• Administrative view on learning resources
  instead of an Pedagogical view

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Deliverables

• D5.1 Prototype of integrated brokerage
  environment
• D5.2 Report on trials with prototype taking into
  account the user and system interoperability
  perspective
• D5.3 Common paper on Conceptual Learning
  Management
• D5.4 Guidelines for brokerage system deployment
  and system integration.
• D5.5 Report on the Open Call Workshop on
  Learning Resource Brokerage and Learning
  Management
• D5.6 Fully operational brokerage environment

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D5.1/D5.6 Prototype/Operational Integrated
Brokerage Environment (Month 6/18,
Responsibility Bernd)
http//edutella.jxta.org
Simple Query Interface
SwedishNotNavet???????
SwedishMuseumWindow
IMCClix?
SwedishURDigitalMediaLibrary
Edutella Peer-2-Peer Network
WU WienContinuingEducation Centre
Ariadne?
EducaNext
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D5.1 (Continued) Simple Query Interface
For example
EDUTELLA
Specification available athttp//nm.wu-wien.ac.a
t/e-learning/inter/sqi/sqi.pdf
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D5.2 Report on trials (user and system
interoperability perspective) (Month 12,
Responsibility Bernd, ..)

• User perspective
• Perform real life trials with brokerage systems
• such as EducaNext, Ariadne
• invite and support users (ProLearners and
  beyond) interested in educational simulations,
  knowledge management,
• Evaluate them using user surveys
• first test of survey instrument in the context of
  EducaNext (December / January 2004)
• re-do survey in November/December 2004
• expand survey to other
• System perspective Perform tests on the network
  of D5.1

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D5.3 Common Paper on Conceptual Learning
Management(Month 12, Responsibility ..)

• Goal how can learners (and learning managers)
  approach learning through a pedagogical/conceptual
  lense
• Starting points
• 1. Naeve, A. (2001), The Knowledge Manifold - an
  educational architecture that Supports
  Inquiry-Based Customizable Forms of E-learning,
  http//kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/KnowledgeManifolds/K
  nowledgeManifold.pdf, Proc. of the 2nd European
  Web-based Learning Environments Conference, Lund,
  Sweden.
• 2. Naeve, A. (2001), The Concept Browser - a new
  form of Knowledge Management Tool,
  http//kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/ConceptualBrowsing/C
  onceptBrowser.doc, Proc. of the 2 nd European
  Web-based Learning Environments, Conference,
  Lund, Sweden.
• 3. Naeve, A., Nilsson, M., Palmér, M. (2001), The
  Conceptual Web - our Research Vision,
  http//kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/SemanticWeb/pospaper
  .pdf, Proc. of the First Semantic Web Working
  Symposium, Stanford University

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D5.4 Guidelines for brokerage system deployment
and system integration. (Month 18,
Responsibility ..)

• Guidelines for brokerage system deployment
• Guidelines for system integration

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D5.5 Report on the Open Call Workshop on on
Learning Resource Brokerage and Learning
Management. (Month 18, Responsibility ..)

• Organize an Open Call Workshop in context of
  Ed-Media 2004 or other conference

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Description of work

• T5.1 Development of an integrated brokerage
  environment
• T5.2 Analysis of the system interoperability of
  the first prototype
• T5.3 Analysis of the requirements of brokerage
  and learning repositories
• T5.4 Open Call Workshop on Knowledge Markets and
  Learning Management to form a detailed roadmap of
  research needs within the scope of the WP.

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Objectives

• Trial brokerage systems and gather end-user
  feedback
• Design and test methods for building and
  deploying brokerage systems
• Integrate brokerage systems (e.g. Ariadne,
  Edutella, EducaNext, ) to achieve critical mass
  in Europe
• Investigate system interoperability issues with
  industry participants such as LMS vendors
• Investigate concept-based access mechanism to
  brokerage systems
• Propose improvements for the management of
  learning in organizations
• Share experiences developed within previous
  WP-related projects an integrate them to a
  unified view

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List of Participants

• Ambjörn Naeve
• Bernd Simon
• Juan Quemada
• Katherine Maillet
• Effie Law
• Michel Klein

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Preliminary list of contributors

• Vienna University of Economics (WUW)
• Catholic University Leuven (KUL)/ARIADNE
• Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
• Learning Lab Lower Saxony (L3S)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  (ETHZ)
• Universidad Polictécnica Madrid (UPM)
• Centre for Social Innovation (CSI)
• Fraunhofer Society (FH)
• National Centre for Scientific Research
  Demokritos (NCSR)
• Josef Stefan Institute (JSI)
• Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications /
  Institut National des Télécommunications (GET/INT)