L2C

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• L2C
• Learning to Collaborate
• Knowledge Management Tools Development
• The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)
• Susanna Albertini Louis Ferrini, FVA

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The L2C Knowledge Community (WP 2)

• OBJECTIVES
• Support/stimulate the Consortiums 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 collaboration-related simulation
  games prototypes
• The gradual emergence of a groups 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
• Criteria for an Effective Collaborative
  Environment
• Specific Features to Enhance Motivation
• To enter
• To stay
• To contribute actively
• Technical dimension
• Technical choices (programming language,
  middleware or not, servers, DB)
• Interface, Usability and Navigation related
  issues
• Guidelines for building a knowledge community
• Design
• Launch
• 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
• Contributions 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, members activity level)
• Customized contents display (search for keyword,
  whats 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
• Profiles (My profile, Members 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)
• Whos 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/