A 'Learning Network' is a community of people who help each other to better understand and handle certain events and concepts in work or life. This book explains what services a Learning Network requires and what the reader should do to design and run Network Services, including guidelines on how to evaluate the effectiveness of these services.
A "Learning Network" is a community of people who help each other to better understand and handle certain events and concepts in work or life. As a result – and sometimes also as an aim – participating in learning networks stimulates personal development, a better understanding of concepts and events, career development, and employability. "Learning Network Services" are Web services that are designed to facilitate the creation of distributed Learning Networks and to support the participants with various functions for knowledge exchange, social interaction, assessment and competence development in an effective way. The book presents state-of-the-art insights into the field of Learning Networks and Web-based services which can facilitate all kinds of processes within these networks.
Learning Network Services are Web services that aid participants with various functions for knowledge exchange, social interaction, assessment and competence development. This book presents the latest insights that facilitate many processes in these networks.
Navigation Services for Learning Networks.- From Lurker to Active
Participant.- Guidelines to Foster Interaction in Online Communities.-
Knowledge Dating and Knowledge Sharing in Ad-Hoc Transient Communities.- How
to Trigger Emergence and Self-Organisation in Learning Networks.- Navigation
Services for Learning Networks.- Individualised Navigation Services in
Learning Networks.- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Personalised Recommender
Systems in Learning Networks.- How to Set Up Simulations for Designing
Light-Weight Personalised Recommender Systems.- How to Find and Follow
Suitable Learning Paths.- Assessment and Placement Services in Learning
Networks.- A Process-Oriented Approach to Support Multi-Role Multi-Stage
E-Assessment: A Case Study.- Placement Services for Learning Networks.- Tools
and Techniques for Placement Experiments.- A Validation Scenario for a
Placement Service in Learning Networks.- Contextualized Learning Network
Services.- Towards Contextualized Learning Services.- Mobile Social Software
to Support Authenticity.- Supporting Authentic Learning Contexts Beyond
Classroom Walls.- Awareness and Reflection in Mobile Learning Support.-
Learning Networks Integrated.- A Conceptual Model of Learning Networks.- The
TENCompetence Infrastructure: A Learning Network Implementation.-
Implementation Examples.- The Personal Competence Manager.- Personal
Development Planner.- Learning Design Authoring Tools in the TENCompetence
Project.- IMS QTI Authoring.- Conclusion of the Book.- Conclusion of the Book.
Rob Koper is professor in the field of learning technologies and the Dean of the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) at the Open University of the Netherlands. Rob has more than 20 years of experience in the field of learning sciences and technologies, and published over 200 publications.
In the past he was responsible for the development of new learning technologies like the Educational Modelling Language (now IMS Learning Design), and methods and technologies to facilitate self-organized learning networks for lifelong learning. His current research is in the area of personal competence development, and he is co-ordinating the Integrated EU project TENCompetence that is building a web-based infrastructure for lifelong competence development.
