Boosting Informal Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises

Lehrstuhl Informatik 5(Information Systems)

Prof. Dr. M. JarkeI5-FL-MMYY-1

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Boosting Informal Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises

Milos Kravcik, Katya Neulinger, Ralf KlammaAdvanced Community Information Systems (ACIS)

RWTH Aachen University, [email protected]

ARTEL Workshop, EC-TEL, Graz, Austria, September 16th, 2014

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http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/research/MiCIS


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http://www.umic.rwth-aachen.de/


http://learning-layers.eu/



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Agenda

Motivation

Functional requirements

Technical prototype

Conclusion and future work

Demo
















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Motivation Issue: decreasing participation of SMEs in VET – informal

learning at the workplace! Learning Layers: Scaling up Technologies for Informal

Learning in SME Clusters– http://learning-layers.eu/

BOOST: Business perfOrmance imprOvement through individual employee Skills Training– http://www.boost-project.eu/– Integrates outcomes from 2 projects:

– BeCome: methodology– ROLE: technology (Personal Learning Environments)

– Focus: enterprises with <20 employees















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LearningLayers Functional Requirements

Phases

Planning:– Identify critical business goals in the company– Select employees to address them

Learning:– Support their learning– Recommend learning resources

Reflection:– Monitor the learning progress of the company and of the

employees
















LearningLayers Functional Requirements

Data & RolesData Model

Business Goals– Project administration– Web development

Learning Indicators– Planning, reporting– Web design, information

architecture Learning Resources

– Materials, tools, peers

User Roles Manager

– Specifies company‘s BGs– Assigns BGs to employees– Monitors learning progress

Trainer– Describes LIs for BGs– Recommends LRs for LIs

Employee– Gets assigned BGs, LIs, LRs– Learns & monitors progress
















LearningLayers Technical Prototype

Manager Area

















Trainer Area

















Employee Area
















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Conclusion & Future Work

Done:– Identification of requirements– Development of technical prototype– First evaluation of technical prototype

– Interviews with 15 stakeholders

To do:– Update of technical prototype

– Privacy– Personalization– Time scales

– Testing in companies
















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Demo

http://role-sandbox.eu/spaces/boostde














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Science

Boosting Informal Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises