A Community Information System for Ubiquitous Informal Learning Support

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Learning LayersScaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters

A Community Information System for Ubiquitous Informal Learning Support

Petru Nicolaescu, Dominik Renzel, István Koren, Ralf Klamma – RWTH Aachen University, GermanyJukka Purma, Merja Bauters - School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland

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Agenda

• Motivation• Background – The Learning Layers EU Project• Web‐based and mobile video annotation for scaffolding informal learning at workplace

• Community success monitoring• Conclusions and future work

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Motivation

• Why? – Supporting ubiquituos informal learning by tagging the non‐obvious in digital video

• What?– Near‐real time collaborative multimedia annotation– Multi‐device & multi‐purpose

• How?– Cloud‐based Community Information System (CIS)– Seamless user interaction across platforms and devices– Community reflection and analytics using CIS success measures 

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EU FP7 Learning Layers Project

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• How can we scale up video tagging to support informal learning at the work place?

• Objectives– Mobile creation of videos with learning 

materials (physical‐digital world)– Tag the non‐obvious for informal 

learning in communities (social media layer)

– Scaffold meaningful learning by exploiting (semantic) tagging information (social semantic layer)

• Two regional clusters– Construction (Germany)– Healthcare (UK)

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Decoupled Multimedia Annotation Information System Architecture

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• 3‐tier architecture• Cloud‐enabled solutions

• Advantages– Separation of concerns– Scalability– Rapid development & deployment

– Application customization

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Multimedia Metadata User Interface

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Multimedia Metadata User Interface

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Multimedia Metadata User Interface

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• Monitoring the use ofthe Web services in a Community of Practice

• Learn from observingthe learners

• Improve the quality of the annotation creation, management and exploitation

Understanding theCommunity of Practice

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MobSOSThe Mobile Oracle ofCommunity Success

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Conclusions & Future Work

• Scaling up informal learning– Support communities, clusters and regional networks– Web services for scaling up– Open source development and cloud deployment– (Distributed) Web widgets and mobile interfaces

• Web engineering solutions & challenges– Strong and scalable service infrastructure– WebRTC and peer‐2‐peer– OpenID Connect (OIDC) for security and privacy

Please ask for details!Petru Nicolaescu: nicolaescu@dbis.rwth‐aachen.de

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