Supporting Teachers in Cross-organisational Knowledge Building

with a Web-based Portfolio

Kairit Tammets Mart Laanpere (presenting)

Tallinn University, Estonia

Extended organisation Responsiveness Intelleo project Knowledge Building: SECI model Research problem Case 3: Association of Teachers Research method Results so far The next steps

Roadmap

Extended organisation

Intelleo is an international R&D project funded by European Commission (FP7 ICT programme, Technology-Enhanced Learning)

Three business cases:◦ Large company (VW) + Research institute (ATB)◦ Small global company (INI) + University (Belgrade)◦ Teachers’ association + University (Tallinn)

Goal: validated theoretical model and software tools which support cross-boundary learning & knowledge building activities, improving organisational responsiveness

Intelleo project

Defining responsiveness

5

Knowledge & competences

6

Knowledge objects

7

Intelleo ontology

8

SECI model by Nonaka & Takeuchi

Context: University + Association of Teachers Research problem: low responsiveness and minimal

cross-boundary knowledge building Research questions:

◦ Which aspects should be considered while developing the theoretical framework for supporting organisational responsiveness in such context?

◦ What are the the main design requirements for a Web-based portfolio environment that should support individual and collaborative knowledge building within extended organization?

◦ Which motivational factors can affect implementation of IntelLEO theoretical framework and Web-based portfolio in such extended organization?

Research problem

Estonian Association of Professional Teachers: re-established 20 years ago

Umbrella organisation for subject-oriented associations of teachers

Partner for Ministry of Education and universities which train future teachers

Teacher’s competence model should provide a common ground, but it does not: professional qualification standard for teachers is not used by teachers, universities or educational authorities

Existing tools for teachers: Koolielu.ee portal, LeMill.net portal, blogs and Web sites of subject teacher communities, online learning environments …

BC3: Association of Teachers

Teachers and teacher trainers involved as co-researchers

Group interviews, concept mapping Participatory design sessions Designing prototypes of new Intelleo

semantic Web tools, which support cross-border knowledge building

Incremental and cyclic prototyping: paper prototypes, HTML mockups, early prototypes …

Action/design research

The first prototypes of Intelleo Web tools are ready to be tested by target groups in all three business cases:◦ Ontology service◦ Human Resource Discovery service◦ Working Group Composition service◦ User Monitoring and Collaboration Tracing service◦ Knowledge Objects service◦ Learning Path Creator service◦ Organisational Policy service

Results so far

Integrating Intelleo services with existing Web tools used by teachers

Piloting new cross-border knowledge building methods in the context of school practice, induction year, in-service teacher training, teacher accreditation and development of new professional qualification standard for teachers

The next steps