Investigating the Suitability of Mashups for Informal Learning and Personal Knowledge Management

Plant Process Control Workshop

Sebastian Weber ; Ludger Thomas ; Eric Ras

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

It has been shown that most of our daily learning takes place outside formal settings (e.g., seminars or trainings) where knowledge is transferredfrom a teacher to a learner and a certificate is often the result. This so-called informal learning is a life-long process where individuals continuously acquireknowledge. It constitutes an important element of every individual’s personalknowledge management (PKM) process. Web 2.0 concepts and techniques facilitate communication with distributed individuals and help knowledge workersto cope with the immense information overload by simplifying the organization,integration, and reuse of information scattered across diverse content sources.In this paper, we investigate mashups in terms of their suitability for supportingand improving the quality of PKM and hence informal learning. This is done byanalyzing which mashup features contribute to a set of information skills andlearning objectives. Our analysis shows that common mashup features have thepotential to broadly support designated information skills of knowledge workers.