Decentralized Learning Infrastructures for Community Knowledge Building

Autor/inn/en	de Lange, Peter; Goschlberger, Bernhard; Farrell, Tracie; Neumann, Alexander Tobias; Klamma, Ralf
Titel	Decentralized Learning Infrastructures for Community Knowledge Building
Quelle	In: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 13 (2020) 3, S.516-529 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (de Lange, Peter) ORCID (Goschlberger, Bernhard) ORCID (Farrell, Tracie) ORCID (Neumann, Alexander Tobias)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1939-1382
DOI	10.1109/TLT.2019.2963384
Schlagwörter	Communities of Practice; Computer Uses in Education; Learning; Computer System Design; Inquiry; Active Learning; Foreign Countries; Young Adults; Administrative Organization; Educational Technology; Nonformal Education; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community; Computernutzung; Lernen; Aktives Lernen; Ausland; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Unterrichtsmedien; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Europa
Abstract	Learning in communities of practice (CoPs) makes up a significant portion of today's knowledge gain. However, only little technological support is tailored specifically toward CoPs and their particular strengths and challenges. Even worse, CoPs often do not possess the resources to host or develop a software ecosystem to support their activities. In this contribution, we describe a decentralized learning infrastructure for community knowledge building. It takes into account the constant change of these communities by providing a lightweight and scalable infrastructure, without the need for central coordination or facilitation. As a real use case, we implement a question-based dialog application for inquiry-based learning and ignorance modeling with our infrastructure. Additionally, we explore the possibility of using social bots to connect the services provided by the decentralized infrastructure to communication tools already present in most communities (e.g., chat platforms). Following a design science approach, we describe a multistep evaluation of both the infrastructure and application, together with the improvements made to the resulting artifacts of each step. Our results indicate the relevance of our approach, which may serve as an example of how decentralized learning infrastructures for learning outside of formal settings can be applied by CoPs for knowledge building. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01