L 2C
Learning to Collaborate
Knowledge Management Tools Development
The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
Susanna Albertini & Louis Ferrini, FVA
Review Meeting – INSEAD, Fontainebleau – 30 March 2007
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
OBJECTIVES:
• Support/stimulate the Consortium’s collaboration towards the final project
objective of designing powerful simulation-based learning experiences focused
on advanced collaboration dynamics and technologies (ACDT).
• Structure the knowledge harvested and created in the different Collaboration
Domains in light of the Simulations’ design.
• Make available and easily accessible all the L2C Simulation material/output
generated in the are of simulation design, implementation and deployment
(conceptual backgrounds, scenarios, missions, dynamics, characters
behaviours…).
• Create an active Knowledge Community (Consortium + broader community of
researchers, game designers and instructors) around the research, design,
implementation and deployment of L2C ACDT simulations.
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
THE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE:
Two main areas, tightly integrated:
• the Knowledge Base and
• the Virtual Learning Community
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
THE KNOWLEDGE BASE GOALS:
• Store, organize, make accessible Collaboration Related Contents
• Support collaborative Editing of contents
• Allow analysis and transformation of contents into SIMs elements
(scenarios, missions, dynamics, characters behaviours…)
• Document the simulation Experiences of users as well as material
generated for these experiences (debriefing notes)
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY GOALS:
• The creation of an active community around the creation of collaborationrelated simulation games prototypes
• The gradual emergence of a group’s identity
• Motivate people to return to the KC and to contribute actively to it
• Make the KC a “Meeting and Interaction Place”, rather than just an online
archive of resources
• A place to launch collaborative initiatives and host team projects
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
OUR TARGET:
• L2C project team members
• Academic Researchers (in the "feeding" of ideas and concepts to be
integrated into the simulations)
• Simulations’ designers/developers
• Teachers wanting to deploy collaboration games (Academic user sector)
• Trainers wanting to deploy collaboration games (Corporate user sector)
• Decision makers in organizations (private, public, educational)
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
GUIDELINES, PROCESSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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Criteria for an Effective Collaborative Environment
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Specific Features to Enhance Motivation
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Technical dimension
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To enter
To stay
To contribute actively
Technical choices (programming language, middleware or not, servers, DB…)
Interface, Usability and Navigation related issues
Guidelines for building a knowledge community
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Design
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Maintenance
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
KC ITERATIVE DESIGN PROCESS
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
KC KEY FEATURES: THE KB DIMENSION
• Search Engine
• Contribution’s wiki (create mode, view mode and co-edit mode, authorship
and permission level, Versions, Undo and Master Copy)
• Comments space
• Additional tools (text editor, bookmarks, send to a friend feature, alert
system, voting tool, number of visits, member’s activity level)
• Customized contents’ display (search for keyword, what’s new, relevant
contents, last inserted entries , most active entries , last visited, my
entries, my favourites)
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
KC KEY FEATURES: THE VC DIMENSION
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Profiles (My profile, Member’s profiles, Group profiles)
Personal blog, Group blog
Roles and permission levels
Communication synchronous tools (voice communication, instant
messaging, chat)
Communication asynchronous tools (forums, e-mail system)
Events space
Collaboration spaces (initiative labs, wiki)
Who’s on
Network function (to be implemented)
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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
PROTOTYPE PRESENTATION
The address of the L2C Knowledge Community: http://www.l2c.fvaweb.net/
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