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Welcome to Collaw@re - Efficient Context-Aware Collaborative Learning.




Description

 

The aim of this initiative is to take next steps in technology enhanced learning and open up new avenues for collaborative learning and working by exploring how context-aware technologies for mobile use can enhance efficient collaboration. The Coll@ware initiative will involve scenario work for designing theories, technologies and practical models for knowledge workers in higher education and professional organizations. The Coll@ware initiative will implement and deploy mobile and ambient learning technologies that will be responsive to people and context, support locating expertise and bridge the gap between formal training and informal on-the-job learning.

 

The main working method in Coll@ware initiative will be scenario work for designing theories, technologies and practical models for knowledge workers in higher education and professional organizations across a number of European countries. This will be done through collaboration between learning and technology researchers, educational and technological developers, as well as, end-users in the different fields. In other words, varied expertise and knowledge intensive organisations’ key personnel engagement to the design and development work is regarded as essential. The technological development will build on emerging technologies, such as Web 2.0, semantic web, context-aware technologies and ubiquitous technologies. Together, these awareness and contextual technologies offer the opportunities of Web 2.0 social software to knowledge workers. They adapt Web 2.0 social affordance technologies (such as social navigation software, folksonomies, etc.), context-aware technologies (e.g., historical agents, GPS, RDF), and pedagogical tools and techniques (e.g., adaptive advice systems, dynamic selection, and multimedia learning content).


 Planned activities and deliverable 



A. Developing scenarios for designing theories, technologies and practical models for knowledge workers in higher education and professional organizations - based upon gained KAL-expertise - for grounding the current theoretical understanding, technological expertise, and empirical work by the partners. This is an effort to apply current expertise for further developing innovative practices as well as to prepare a Coll@ware research agenda for application for a grant within the 7th Framework Calls for Proposals.

B. Submitting a FP7 TEL “Coll@ware” research proposal (May, 2007). This is to progress the TEL research efforts and increase sustainability of KAL.

C. Workshops will be organized for scenario work and constructing the research agenda.

  • Alpine Rendez-Vous in Villars, Switzerland (January, 2007)
    • Grounding the activities and participating the workshop: “Beyond mobile learning: Innovating rather than replicating existing learning scenarios.
  • Workshop in Nottingham (March, 2007)
    • Planning the research agenda and kick off for the scenario work
  • Meeting in Budapest (August, 2007) at the EARLI conference
    • Planning the research agenda
  • Participating the 2nd KAL symposium in Berlin (November, 2007)

Organizing a “Coll@ware” workshop to present and discuss about developed scenarios


Description of the deliverable - the outcome of the initiative
 

Report on Coll@ware scenarios and research agenda:

  •  “Coll@ware” scenarios (which will be concrete case-descriptions to demonstrate the usefulness of the solutions).
  • “Coll@ware” Research Agenda (next TEL steps for using context-aware technologies for mobile use for successful collaboration in different contexts)

Delivery date: 31st  October 2007



 

Progress

 

January

Partners form the universities of Oulu and Nottingham participated the Alpine Rendez-Vous in Villars, Switzerland. University of Nottingham lead the workshop: “Beyond mobile learning: Innovating rather than replicating existing learning scenarios” which was one of the grounding activities to Coll@ware.

 

February - March 

All partners have been actively discussed together and worked with their teams to elaborate their joint theoretical understanding, specific technological expertise, and previous empirical work by the partners. Also other experts and colleagues working in the field have been approached. This is a grounding activity to prepare a Coll@ware research agenda.



May-June

All partners have created scenarios for further elaboration and developing. This takes place in Collaware wikispace during summer. Address to the wikispace: https://edtech7.oulu.fi/collaware/


Partners and contact information

   

  • Research Unit for Educational Technology, University of Oulu, Finland (Kaleidoscope NoE)

Prof. Sanna Järvelä

 

  • Research Centre Learning in Interaction, University of Utrecht, Netherlands (Kaleidoscope NoE)

Prof. Paul Kirschner

 

  • CeLeKT, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University, Sweden (kaleidoscope NoE)

Prof. Marcelo Milrad

 

  • Learning Sciences Research Institute, LRSI. University of Nottingham, Great Britain (Kaleidoscope NoE)

Prof. Mike Sharples