Social Software for Professional Learning: Examples and Research Issues

Author

Klamma, Ralf ; Chatti, Mohamed Amine ; Duval, Erik ; Fiedler, Sebastian ; Hummel, Hans ; Hvannberg, Ebba Thora ; Kaibel, Andreas ; Kieslinger, Barbara ; Kravcik, Milos ; Law, Effie ; Naeve, Ambjorn ; Scott, Peter ; Specht, Marcus ; Tattersall, Colin ; Vuo

Author_Institution

PROLEARN Network of Excellence, Hannover

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 July 2006

Firstpage

912

Lastpage

915

Abstract

Social software is used widely in organizational knowledge management and professional learning. The PROLEARN network of excellence appreciates the trend of lowering the barriers between knowledge and learning management strategies for organizations and individuals. But, companies should not underestimate the needs for systematic support based on sound theories and technologies. We illustrate the requirements by examples and research issues for collaborative adaptive learning platforms for workplace learning in organizations

Keywords

Internet; continuing professional development; courseware; groupware; knowledge management; collaborative adaptive learning; learning management strategy; organizational knowledge management; professional learning; social software; workplace learning; Blogs; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Employment; Knowledge management; Packaging; Social network services; Software maintenance; Software packages; Tagging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kerkrade

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2632-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652591

Filename

1652591