e-learning by Georg Weichhart
When taking into account individualized learning processes not only content and interaction facil... more When taking into account individualized learning processes not only content and interaction facilities need to be re-considered, but also the design of learning processes per se. Besides explicitness of learning objectives, interactive means of education need to enable intertwining content and communication elements as basic elements of active learning in a flexible way while preserving a certain structure of the learning process. Intelligibility Catchers are a theoretically grounded framework to enable such individualized processes. It allows learners and teachers agreeing and determining a desired learning outcome in written form. This type of e-learning contract enables students to individually explore content and participate in social interactions, while being guided by a transparent learning process structure. The developed implementation empowers learners in terms of creative problem-solving capabilities, and requires adaptation of classroom situations. The framework and its supporting semantic e-learning environment not only enables diverse learning and problem solving processes, but also supports the collaborative construction of e-learning contracts.
Kollaborative Cross-Organisationale Prozessgestaltung–Koordination von Menschen und Agenten
Der Dalton Plan im E-Learning: Transformation einer Refrompädagogik ins Web
In dieser Arbeit wird erstmalig die Transformation einer Reformp\"adagogik ins E--Learning analys... more In dieser Arbeit wird erstmalig die Transformation einer Reformp\"adagogik ins E--Learning analysiert, realisiert und evaluiert. Basierend auf dem reformp\"adagogischen Ansatz „Dalton Plan“ (H. Parkhurst, 1924) wird eine E--Learning Umgebung erarbeitet. Der Dalton Plan unterst\"utzt das Erlernen des Umgangs mit Freiheit, selbst\"andiger Organisation und kreativen Probleml\"osens in einer Gemeinschaft.
Wissensbest\"ande werden mittels Experteninterviews erhoben und als Concept Maps modelliert. Das dokumentierte Wissen wird in Anforderungen an eine Lernum-gebung \"uberf\"uhrt. Gemäß den p\"adagogischen Anforderungen wird ein Editor für Arbeitspensen, digitale Feedbackgraphen und ein Meta-Pensum für die Erstellung von Pensen realisiert. Die aktiv genutzte E--Learning Umgebung wird von Experten evaluiert.
Diese Evaluierung zeigt die Usefullness der Umsetzung. Auch wird ein hohes Potential des Ansatzes für die Wissensvermittlung mittels selbst-organisierten Lernens festgestellt.
Stakeholder-centered Ontologies for Educational Designs
E-Learning and Knowledge Management environments are increasingly becoming highly interactive and... more E-Learning and Knowledge Management environments are increasingly becoming highly interactive and content-rich. They encapsulate social, cognitive, and technological aspects. Concept maps are effective means to generate and organize multiple grounded knowledge for sharing content and trigger behavior along learning and development processes. Since the basic concept map structure and procedure can easily be explained, the various stakeholders engaged in learning processes and knowledge management activities can benefit from these capabilities. Concept maps allow encoding not only relevant information but also elaborating different perspectives on information elements. In this way, meaningful content and features for interaction can effectively be conveyed. We demonstrate the non-intrusive and non-disruptive use of concept maps for user- and usage-centered design of learning environments. The approach spans from articulating educational designs and tagging didactic content to purposeful navigation and traceable design spaces. We use metadata to encode educational intention for learning support. They also allow using content elements in different educational contexts. Their handling can be aligned with existing features of learning support systems including social media. By understanding such application development as a learning process itself, concept mapping enforces systemic understanding and thus, accelerates further developments in context-sensitive design, as our findings from the field reveal.
Constructing a new Role for Teachers
Applied e-Learning Systems Research - An empirical, qualitative method for modelling e-Learning environments
Requirements for collaborative process design
Workshop-Proceedings der, 2005
Effective and successful support of collaborative process design in a distributed environment is ... more Effective and successful support of collaborative process design in a distributed environment is largely dependent on the mutual intelligibility of processes for the involved parties. This requires an ICT-supported modelling framework that captures information provided by stakeholders and presents it in an accurate way to the other involved parties. We introduce a novel, distributed approach for process modelling, which allows to build abstract models of processes, business rules and constraints. The focus of this approach ...
Facilitating Knowledge Transfer in IANES-A Transactive Memory Approach
Abstract.'Interactive Acquisition, Negotiation and Enactment of Subject-oriented Business Pr... more Abstract.'Interactive Acquisition, Negotiation and Enactment of Subject-oriented Business Process Knowledge'is a 4-year research effort to implement a knowledge life cycle using Subject-oriented Business Process Management and mutually align related Organizational Learning techniques in respective development processes. As different partners from academia and industry need to share their experiences, tools, techniques on a detailed level as well as the project's content management are of crucial importance. In this paper, we ...
Thrivability is a novel concept describing the intention to go beyond sustainability, allowing a ... more Thrivability is a novel concept describing the intention to go beyond sustainability, allowing a system to flourish . For a society or organization to be thrivable, educated, responsible acting agents are needed. Traditional education focuses on (efficient) reproduction of existing organised bodies of information . We argue that complex adaptive systems theory and chaos theory provide concepts well suited to inform the design of learning environments, in order to facilitate a thrivable organization. This learning is not linear and externally controlled, but happens in a chaotic, yet guided manner. After discussing the suitability of the theoretical body of these general approaches, we show how a concrete progressive education approach, called the Dalton-Plan pedagogy , implements and supports these elements. By doing so, we show that the Dalton-Plan pedagogy is well suited for education of agents working in and for thrivable organizations. Support for teachers as part of this evolving learning system is provided by an e-learning environment.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN QUALITATIVE, EMPIRICAL WORK AND SOFTWARE DESIGN
2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2009
Agile enterprise networks require a collaborative learning infrastructure. In this paper we prese... more Agile enterprise networks require a collaborative learning infrastructure. In this paper we present a collaborative learning environment focussing on self-organized learning processes in automotive ecosystems. Developed within the EC-project SUddEN it implements an integrated, however modular approach to intelligent content management and context-sensitive communication. On-the-job learning comprises the dynamic handling of business opportunities and performance measurement systems. The corresponding features allow for continuous organizational development even in highly competitive markets.
S-BPM Education on the Dalton Plan: An E-Learning Approach
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2012
ABSTRACT S-BPM (Subject-oriented Business Process Management) is a new communication oriented app... more ABSTRACT S-BPM (Subject-oriented Business Process Management) is a new communication oriented approach to Business Process Management. Because of its novelty, good approaches to education are required. Guided by theory in this paper a didactic approach is identified. It is argued that the chosen Dalton Plan pedagogic is suitable to form a basis for modern constructivist e-learning. The paper showcases the e-learning platform nymphaea which integrates Dalton Plan assignments and exemplifies the presented approach and tool using the s-bpm live cycle.
3D Progressive Education Environment for S-BPM
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2014
Traceable Pedagogical Design Rationales for Personalized Learning Technologies
International Journal of People-Oriented Programming, 2014
Interoperability by Georg Weichhart
Advanced Manufacturing-An Ict and Systems …
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2014
Research in enterprise interoperability analyzes, describes, and improves the interaction of part... more Research in enterprise interoperability analyzes, describes, and improves the interaction of parts of enterprise systems. Non-interoperability is a situation where either parts of enterprises do not work together at all, or are fully integrated to an extend where the individual parts may not be separated any more. To allow enterprise systems to produce business value its parts need to be interoperable. The S-BPM approach is analyzed with respect to contributions to support interoperability in enterprise systems. Missing support is identified and requirements for tools are derived.
Designing and Executing Interoperable IoT Manufacturing Systems
Interoperability for Agility, Resilience and Plasticity of Collaborations: I-ESA'14 Proceedings, 2015
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a conceptual framework for designing and executing sustainable, inte... more ABSTRACT This paper proposes a conceptual framework for designing and executing sustainable, interoperable IoT-based manufacturing systems. It is motivated by the observation that manufacturing systems operate in a complex and dynamic environment, requiring constant evolution in order to be sustainable. It is based on a view of interoperable agent-based systems as the results of continuous re-design processes, addressing changing needs from the socio-technical, ecological or economic environment. The paper uses the Function-Behaviour-Structure (FBS) framework from design science to describe the fundamental processes involved in re-designing these systems.
Ontology of Enterprise Interoperability Extended for Complex Adaptive Systems
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
ABSTRACT Collaborating business organisations have to face the challenge of being interoperable d... more ABSTRACT Collaborating business organisations have to face the challenge of being interoperable despite the growing complexity of products and services, and despite the increasing agility requirements. Changes to products and services and to supply network configurations occur frequently and require to maintain interoperability constantly in a dynamic way. Designed to formalize and handle interoperability issues, the Ontology of Enterprise Interoperability lacks means to capture the dynamics of modern business. We propose in this paper an extension based on the Complex Adaptive Systems theory. A use-cases is discussed by applying the ontology within a knowledge life cycle framework.
Supporting the evolution and interoperability of organisational models with e-learning technologies
Abstract Models are instruments that allow agents to gain understanding and plan future steps req... more Abstract Models are instruments that allow agents to gain understanding and plan future steps required for being sustainable. Unfortunately, social, economical and ecological systems are in constant flux. The modelling process in a dynamic environment is a never ending, ongoing concern. As a theoretical lens for the analysis of enterprise sustainability the theory of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) is used. This theory allows to capture dynamic aspects in models. Theoretical aspects of CASs are briefly introduced and used to analyse learning support for the active agents in the enterprise. A learning system is conceptualised. Support for enterprise models in general and the enterprises’ active agents in particular is discussed to show how to support getting along with the dynamics of the overall system. Interoperability is derived as a key property of the overall system. Interoperability requires system-parts to be independent, while supporting the overall system’s functionality. On the one hand multi-faced problems are independently analysed by active agents. On the other hand partial solutions realised by active agents need to be interoperable on the enterprise level. Taking a CAS point of view interoperability between system parts becomes a necessity, which, if not met, might bring the overall system to a halt. Requirements and properties for a support environment for organisations’ agents to keep pace with permanent changes in their environments are described. Technologies are presented that fit to the used theoretical point of view and support both: the individual evolution and learning of agents who update local models and the interoperability between models.
Supporting Interoperability in Complex Adaptive Enterprise Systems: A Domain Specific Language Approach
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