Andreas Schmidt Weblog » motivation http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:17:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Workshop on Motivational and Affective Aspects of Technology-Enhanced Learning (MATEL 2010) http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2010/05/workshop-on-motivational-and-affective-aspects-of-technology-enhanced-learning-matel-2010.html http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2010/05/workshop-on-motivational-and-affective-aspects-of-technology-enhanced-learning-matel-2010.html#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 09:23:31 +0000 Andreas Schmidt http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/?p=141 Based on the experiences in MATURE, we are trying to form an interdisciplinary community around the topic of motivational and affective aspects in technology-enhanced learning. Towards that end, we are organizing a workhop (MATEL 2010) at this year’s edition of the ECTEL conference, which takes place in Barcelona, Spain.

We invite contributions from the areas of psychology, sociology, computer science, CSCW, economics, among others.

]]> http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2010/05/workshop-on-motivational-and-affective-aspects-of-technology-enhanced-learning-matel-2010.html/feed 0 I-KNOW 2009 & the first steps towards motivational design for informal learning tools http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2009/09/i-know-2009-the-first-steps-towards-motivational-design-for-informal-learning-tools.html http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2009/09/i-know-2009-the-first-steps-towards-motivational-design-for-informal-learning-tools.html#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:48:00 +0000 Andreas Schmidt http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2009/09/i-know-2009-the-first-steps-towards-motivational-design-for-informal-learning-tools.html Last week we were at Graz, first for a MATURE Consortium Meeeting and then for the I-KNOW conference, which I always enjoy for its atmosphere. It is far more relaxed and suitable for networking with long lunch and coffee breaks in the afternoon. Unfortunately, the quality of the talks did not live up to my expectations  based on previous years’ experience (despite the fact that the MATURE project contributed 7 presentations and one poster presentation). This is strikingly similar to the WM 2009 in Solothurn. Is this a (rather alarming) indicator that traditional knowledge management forums do not attract the top research contributions? Or is the topic as such no longer fashionable?

On the other side, the event hosted the kick-off event for the Special Interest Group on Professional Learning (www.sig-protel.eu), which tries to increase the visibility of the topic on a European level, first by better networking among the concerned European research projects like MATURE, APOSDLE, ROLE, and others. In the discussion, it has turned out that despite the ambiguity of the term, professional learning seems to be umbrella term for KM and workplace learning. This SIG is a promising sign for a maturing community.

This year, Christine and I were giving a talk on integrating motivational aspects into the design of informal learning support, which reported on our findings on how to integrating motivational measures into tools for informal learning (the paper is available from here). Christine has done most of the work in ethnographic studies and their analysis. Currently, together with our colleague Athanasios, they are struggling to integrate their ideas into the four demonstrators of MATURE Year 2 demonstrators.

Integrating Motivational Aspects into the Design of Learning Support in Organizations

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