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Engineering Peer-to-Peer Learning Processes for Generating High Quality Learning Materials
ISSN
0302-9743
ISBN
978-3-319-10165-1
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2014-09-07
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Baloian, Nelson
Burstein, Frada
Ogata, Hiroaki
Santoro, Flavia
Zurita, Gustavo
Research Team
IWI6
Abstract
Organizations are facing the challenge of transferring knowledge from experienced to novice employees and are seeking for solutions that avoid the loss of knowledge with retiring experts. A possible way for overcoming this challenge is having employees develop learning materials for their novice colleagues. Based on insights from both, education and collaboration research, designing structured collaborative peer-creation-processes seems a promising approach due to several reasons. Within a peer-creation-process participants are guided to knowledge acquisition, transfer as well as documentation for others. By developing learning materials through collaboration with people at different level of knowledge, e.g., the tacit knowledge of the expert gets codified and is ready for being used by novices. Furthermore, the collaborative creation will create learning effects even among participants and should further increase their knowledge, and the quality of the learning materials. Unfortunately, little research has addressed reusable didactically driven processes of systematically documenting knowledge that can be used by others as learning material. In order to bridge this gap we identify requirements from educational and collaboration literature and conceptualize educationally driven changes in the layer model of collaboration, e.g., to consider learning objectives in the goals layer or to integrate peer review as mechanisms for quality control in the procedures layer. This paper opens up a promising field for collaboration research and provides future research directions for reusable structured peer-creation-processes with focus on learning. This research-in-progress paper closes with a conceptual framework with requirements of a collaborative peer creation process.
Language
English
Keywords
Layer Model
Collaboration Engineering
Peer Creation
Peer Learning
Knowledge
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Collaboration and Technology
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Start page
263
End page
270
Pages
8
Event Title
International Conference on Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG)
Event Location
Santiago, Chile
Event Date
07.-10.09.2014
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Division(s)
Eprints ID
232489
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