Keynote presentation at the European Congress for Technology Enhanced Learning in Business: "Digital Learning Congress", Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland http://dlcongress.pl/
WebQuest:"Bridge your digital divide", JTELSS 2010
DLC12 Transfer of Innovation: Collaborative Blended Learning model and WebQuest 2.0 in SMEs
1. THE TRANSFER OF INNOVATION:
THE COLLABORATIVE BLENDED
LEARNING MODEL & WEBQUEST 2.0
IN SMES
Maria Perifanou & Graham Attwell
Pontydysgu, UK
2. “The 20 million
SMEs in Europe
provide around 65
million jobs & a key
source of
innovation &
growth”.
(Europe's Information Society
Thematic Portal)
3. Large Enterprises SMEs
• Little use of ICT for
learning
#
(Attwell, 2007)
9. FLEXIBILITY :
NO SPACE & TIME LIMITS
LEARNING
Blended: online &/or f2f
Collaborative &/or self paced
10. ………“Webquest 2.0
collaborative projects that
take place less as F2F
meetings but mostly
online, supported by
(a)synchronous Web 2.0
technologies combining at
the same time
collaborative learning with
self paced learning".
(Perifanou, 2009).
22. Research
questions?
1. Webquest 2.0 & HRM
(transfer)
2. CBLM in SMEs (group
& self paced work)
3. Web 2.0 enhanced
working environment
4. Communities of
Practice
23. 6 Training
sessions in
Poland & UK
Participants:
HR trainers, work
based trainers,
SMEs employees,
developers, skilled
workers
24. Great appreciation of the value of Results:
Webquets 2.0 approach & CBLM
ICT: great potential especially for Positive
staff dispersed geographically outcomes #
Webquests 2.0 are tailored for the
needs of particular user groups
25. No time/money: Creating WQ2.0 scenarios is
time consuming & expensive.
No extra money Low access to technology
Results:
(lack of Laptops).
ICT skills: Need for advanced level ICT skilled
trainers & medium level ICT skills of trainees #
before WQ2.0 training sessions. Issues
OER: UK companies are more interested in
open source applications but many enterprises
firewall popular social software applications.
SMES#OER: Most SMEs are still unwilling to
share resources (a source of economic
advantage over competitors).
26. ICT skills: offer material for preparation on
ICT before WQ2.0 training sessions.
Flexibility: choose a “ tailor made Proposals/
blend”…only online &/or f2f sessions
Simplicity: if needed don’t go through
Possible
every WQ2.0. learning circle solutions
No time/money: reuse of training
materials
OER: Create a community with SMSs that
you trust & you can collaborate.
Discussion focused on participants’ experience of work based learning and training and work based PLEs (15 min).
Division of participants in groups (2min)Invitation to face to face and online participants to brainstorm and tweet issues related to the development of work based PLEs (15 min).