Social Software for LifelongCompetence Development: Scenario

and Challenges

Ivana Marenzi, Elena Demidova, Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel OlmedillaL3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany

{marenzi, demidova, nejdl, olmedilla}@L3S.de

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The evolution of the web

Web 1.0: consultation (user) + communication (author)

Web 2.0: collaboration

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Social software: Web 2.0 is about people

It works bottom-up: supports individuals to

• interact socially • achieve their personal goals, together with people with

similar interests

motivated groups and working teams

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Questions

Can social software be

- used in formal learning or work environments- incorporated into more conventional software

solutions ?- what challenges for integration?

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Scenario: Higher Education

ICT technicians support different projects and people in a university environment

- administrative work (storing and sharing resources)

- teaching (presenting and providing learning materials)

- projects and learning systems (developing e-learning materials)

Community of knowledge workers

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communication

collaboration

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Scenario Higher Education

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Scenario Higher Education

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Lifelong learning – Competence development

•Create, retrieve and share data/resources

•Improve communication and collaboration

•Keep update, discover new technologies and connect competences

•Web 1.0

•Web 2.0 (strong ties)

•Web 2.0 (weak ties)

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Lifelong learning – Competence development

Strong ties

Weak ties Weak ties

Potential ties

Share resources

Collaborate

Finding people

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TENCompetence’s current infrastructure

It brings together:

•Information stored on institutional servers

•centralized repositories (P2P technology)

• online community-sharing (e.g Flickr and YouTube)

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TENCompetence – the next step

an integrated platform for

sharing

discussing

creating (possibly collaborative) knowledge resources

LearnWeb 2.0

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Social networking types

Hosting and sharing media

Communicating

Managing and scheduling resources

Building contents

You Tube

Facebook

Flickr

DiigoDoodle Del.icio.us

MediaWiki

GroupMe

StudIP

Cmap

Slideshare

MoodleLinkedIn

Zoho

Last.fm

GoogleDocs

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You can’t mix oil and vinegar

Open Source

API

External-online Doodle

Facebook Flickr

Diigo

MediaWiki GroupMe StudIP Moodle

Cmap Del.icio.us

try getting many programs working together in a single environment…

is…an unholy alliance

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linkage of resources provided by one application

one common application on top of the APIs provided by the different Web 2.0 tools

the entire set of functionalities of all applications in a common system

Challenges: Integration and Interoperability

Basic:

Partial:

Complete:

three integration degrees

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Challenges: Integration and Interoperability

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LearnWeb 2.0

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Challenges: Identity Management

Single Sign On

New integrated environment

authentication data encrypted in a single place

LearnWeb 2.0

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Conclusions

challenges

preliminary ideas

suggestions remarks questions ?

Thanks