The MATURE paper on the findings on knowledge maturing activities from the interview study has won the STELLAR Stakeholder Distinct…
While MATURE has always been inspired by bottom-up developments (and the concept of knowledge maturing has this an inherent assumption),…
Finally, I have managed to complete the last step of my PhD (my defense was already in February): I have…
It has been an exciting year, working as the scientific coordinator and (as Pablo Franzolini, the other part of the…
On Thursday and Friday I had the opportunity to go to the OnlineEduca Berlin. It is a huge combined congress…
I just stumbled across Dave Snowden’s presentation at KM Asia 2008 in Singapore, and it was really surprising to see…
Gabi Reinmann from University of Augsburg presented conceptual foundations for personal knowledge management based on her book “Wissenswege” (paths of/toward knowledge), which could be interesting to incorporate into the MATURE discussion on Personal Learning Environments At the end of her talk she presented results from two studies on knowledge bloggers (researchers and teachers), whose emotional/motivational aspects could be crucial for the notion of PLEs, too: experience of competence, social integration, and autonomy. Particularly the latter one could be a challenges and source of conflict for PLEs within organizations – one example in the discussion mentioned that external blogging platforms are preferred over corporate blogging platforms because of the aspect of autonomy.
Next week, I will attend the ECTEL 2008 conference at Maastricht. Together with several others I am organizing the LEB…
In the middle of weeks of heavy travelling, I am currently at Ohrid for the PROLEARN/EATEL Summer School. Pablo and…
Rethinking learning in enterprises in response to bottom-up participatory approaches is one of the main themes of the MATURE IP.…