Learning processes and processing learning: from organizational needs to learning designs

Naeve, Ambjörn; Sicilia, Miguel Ángel; Lytras, Miltiadis D.

doi:10.1108/13673270810913586

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“…Semantic technology has been applied for project management teams construction (Gómez- , knowledge management for software projects , benchmarking personnel metrics (García- Crespo et al, 2009a), technical competence assessment (Colomo- , knowledge sharing and reuse (Lanzenberger et al, 2008), assist the learning process (Naeve et al, 2008) or support work assignment (Macris et al, 2008) to cite some of the most recent initiatives.…”

Section: Semantic Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personnel performance assessment in information systems outsourcing environments

Casado‐Lumbreras

Soto‐Acosta

Colomo‐Palacios

et al. 2011

Journal of Workplace Learning

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Purpose The aim of this paper is to present a tool which uses semantic technologies for personnel performance and workplace learning assessment in outsourced information technology environments. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents the tool from a technical perspective and introduces a use case that depicts the main features related to human resource management issues. Findings Semantic technologies enable the monitoring of personnel throughout all of the phases of the management of outsourcing, basing itself on established communication standards used in leading business management tools and recent outsourcing efforts. This monitoring provides to human resource management issues an integrated approach to assess both employee performance and learning outcomes as a result of competence evaluation. Originality/value The paper shows that semantic technologies can be applied to human resource management tools to bring its intrinsic characteristics to human resource management tasks including personnel and learning assessment.

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Section: Semantic Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personnel performance assessment in information systems outsourcing environments

Casado‐Lumbreras

Soto‐Acosta

Colomo‐Palacios

et al. 2011

Journal of Workplace Learning

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“…Besides the proposed mappings between several semantic layers, mappings are also considered within a specific layer to enable a wide applicability of our approach. E. g. semantic concepts of our LPMO can be mapped to other existing semantic concepts representing learning-related entities within different approaches -e. g. learning process modules as defined in (Naeve et al, 2006) and (Koper, 2004).…”

Section: Semantic Learning Process Model Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

Context-Adaptive Learning Designs by Using Semantic Web Services

Dietze

Gugliotta

Domingue

2007

JIME

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IMS Learning Design (IMS-LD) is a promising technology aimed at supporting learning processes. IMS-LD packages contain the learning process metadata as well as the learning resources. However, the allocation of resources -whether data or services -within the learning design is done manually at design-time on the basis of the subjective appraisals of a learning designer. Since the actual learning context is known at runtime only, IMS-LD applications cannot adapt to a specific context or learner. Therefore, the reusability is limited and high development costs have to be taken into account to support a variety of contexts. To overcome these issues, we propose a highly dynamic approach based on Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology. Our aim is moving from the current data-and metadata-based to a context-adaptive service-oriented paradigm. We introduce semantic descriptions of a learning process in terms of user objectives (learning goals) to abstract from any specific metadata standards and used learning resources. At runtime, learning goals are accomplished by automatically selecting and invoking the services that fit the actual user needs and process contexts. As a result, we obtain a dynamic adaptation to different contexts at runtime. Semantic mappings from our standard-independent process models will enable the automatic development of versatile, reusable IMS-LD applications as well as the reusability across multiple metadata standards. To illustrate our approach, we describe a prototype application based on our principles.

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“…By combining learning process modelling 2008b) with the SECI theory of knowledge creation, we can create a SECI process framework (abstract model) for the description and classification of knowledge-creating learning processes. In Figure 3 In each of the four SECI knowledge conversion stages a learning process takes place.…”

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Communicative Modelling of Cultural Transmission and Evolution Through a Holographic Cognition Model

Naeve

2012

tripleC

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This article addresses the problems of specialization and fragmentation that are presently threatening the future of human civilization as we know it -with the aim to contribute towards enabling a more informed and unified perspective on the 'big' questions that confront us today, the answers to which will determine our future. We present communicative ways to model the transmission and evolution of the processes and artefacts of a culture as the result of a sequence of interactions between its members -both at the tacit and the explicit level. The overall purpose of communicative modelling is to create models that improve the quality of communication between people, and we try to do so here by providing a set of semantically rich conceptual 'placeholders' for modelling the intra-, inter-, and supra-actions of any organizational or cultural entity that is considered to be "important enough to deserve attention" within a certain context. In order to capture the subjective aspects of Gregory Bateson's definition of information as "a difference that makes a difference," the article adds novel features to holographic cognition by abstracting away from the underlying neurophysics of Karl Pribram's Holonomic Brain Theory. Instead we introduce an abstract Holographic Cognition Model that uses holography exclusively as a metaphor or analogy for human cognition -with the object beam of holography corresponding to the first difference (the situation that the cognitive agent encounters), and the reference beam of holography corresponding to the subjective experiences that the agent brings to the situation, and which makes the second difference -the "holographic interpretation pattern" -unique for each agent. Hence, we do not assume the in-brain existence of counterparts of the patch holograms in Pribram's model, but we note that the metaphor of patch holograms provides a basis for modelling human biases and limitations in noticing things, as well as in recalling the memories of those things, at the individual, organizational and cultural levels. This inclusion of both individual and collective human biases increases the scope and the psychological plausibility of the present models. Moreover, by combining our abstract HCM with a semantically rich and recursive form of process modelling, based on Ikujiro Nonaka's SECI theory of knowledge creation, we arrive at a way to model cultural transmission and evolution processes that is consistent with Wolfgang Hofkirchner's Unified Theory of Information and the related Triple-C model with its emphasis on intra-, inter-and supra-actions. Acknowledgement: This article has been made possible by funding from the TEL-Map project, which is a Coordinated Support Action within EU-IST-FP7 that focuses on Future Gazing for Technology Enhanced Learning. Moreover, the author is grateful for the detailed comments and suggestions from the reviewers of the tripleC journal. This feedback has helped to focus the content and improve the clarity of presentation of the initial version of thi...

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Learning processes and processing learning: from organizational needs to learning designs

Cited by 42 publications

References 8 publications

Personnel performance assessment in information systems outsourcing environments

Personnel performance assessment in information systems outsourcing environments

Context-Adaptive Learning Designs by Using Semantic Web Services

Communicative Modelling of Cultural Transmission and Evolution Through a Holographic Cognition Model

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