Learning Environment: Emergent Organizational Behavior - an innovative action learning journey into emergent collaboration, communication, followership and leadership

Annette Dalsgaard VilainJacob B. Theilgaard

Minecraft Organizational Lab

• Interactive collaborative experiential learning

• Emergent social structures• Temporary virtual

organization• A Virtual Learning scaffold• Participants experiment

with and learn about interaction

• Based on what the members put in.

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Minecraft

WIKI spaces

Action learning

facilitator

Collaborative tasks

Reflection and

perspective

Learning ecology

Reflection and Perspective

Rationale

Emergent collaboration Planning

Acting

Evaluating

Constructing

Task

Learning flow

Minecraft

Collaborative tasks

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WIKI spaces

Reflection and

perspective

Action learning facilitator

Minecraft

Collaborative tasks

WIKI spaces

Reflection and

perspective

Minecraft

Collaborative tasks

WIKI spaces

Reflection and

perspective

System function and featuresHardware Software

Target audience and learning conditions• M.O.O.C• Interpersonal relation

building• Open continuously

enrollments• Self insight,

organizational insight and group behavior

• Will and ability to challenge oneself and learn from a combination of activity and reflection

• Ex: HR, managers, consultants

Business/implementation model:

• Entry fee for Minecraft• Facilitator costs• Technological support• Interactive branding social

media

• Non- profit• Anchored in a knowledge

creation organization• Motivation driven• Crowd sourcing

Sustainability