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    Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab) Overview
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22) Markkanen, Hannu ; Barclay, Hanna ; Schrey-Niemenmaa, Katriina
    KP-Lab is a five year research and development project financed by the EU 6th Framework Program conducted by 22 partners from different parts of Europe. The aim of the project is to create a learning system, which facilitates innovative practices of sharing, creating and working with knowledge in education and workplaces. The KP-Lab aims at developing theories, tools and practical models in teaching and learning as well as digital applications which suit the new knowledge practices. The applications will be mostly based on an open source so they will be widely available. Researchers in pedagogy and psychology define and investigate the models of tools and practices; technology experts investigate and develop the technological solutions; enterprises offer authentic environments for investigation and they also participate in the development of technological tools. Institutions which represent the end-users participate in the co-evolutionary processes. The development done in different areas of the project, research, pedagogical and technological development, is conducted tightly together as a co-evolutionary process. The technical tools developed support the trialogical learning theory, where learning by development of a shared object is in the centre, underlying the project and the related pedagogical practices. EVTEK’s contribution focuses on coordinating the creation of technical solutions. The development work builds on emerging technologies, such as semantic Web, Web 2.0, real-time multimedia communication and inter-organizational computing. EVTEK’s tasks include software development (semantic web, social software, mobile applications), usability of applications - planning and testing and participating in the pedagogical development through for example field trials in media technology courses for students Examples of digital applications developed in the project include Shared Space, which is a virtual collaboration space that supports the trialogical learning and work. Many of the other tools developed in the project will be integrated into the Shared Space. The digital tools and pedagogical models developed will help in the advancement of knowledge practices in educational institutions and companies. They will be suited for different types of education, including especially virtual learning and teaching. Field trials in education are currently conducted in many different areas, in degree education and continuing professional development.
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    Case Study Experiments of the Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab)
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22) Bauters, Merja ; Markkanen, Hannu ; Barclay, Hanna ; Schrey-Niemenmaa, Katriina
    KP-Lab is a five year research and development project financed by the EU 6th Framework Program. The aim of the project is to create a learning system which facilitates innovative practices of sharing, creating and working with knowledge in education and workplaces. The KP-Lab aims at developing theories, tools and practical models in teaching and learning as well as digital applications. This presentation will outline how the experimental development work adapting trialogical learning is done with the students as part of a media engineering course called "multimedia product". The course was developed further through scenario writing (see Carroll, 2000) to reach the new pedagogical practices and technological means to support these. This work was executed in co-operation with the KP-Lab pedagogical partners. The goal of the multimedia product course is to provide an opportunity for the students to use and extend their skills on the design of a multimedia product or service in an authentic situation, still being able to get support for the process. (see Muukkonen et al. 2006 and Paavola et al. 2004). The results of this process are a product or service that is delivered to the client, as well as all the artifacts the students create together in the process. In the course, the first prototype of one of the KP-Lb tools, namely the Shared Space and its tools were used. Shared Space is an environment, which provides support and means for collaborative work around shared object that are developed. The students and teacher can comment directly to the shared objects using a commenting tool. They can link semantically the objects and tasks to express their meaningful relations. They can write collaboratively their project reports and deliverables using integrated wiki. They can annotate semantically the shared objects for example by using a domain based light way ontology. Furthermore, the students have participated in the design and evaluation process by giving feedback and ideas of how they would prefer to use the Shared Space and its tools as well as by organizing different kind of usability tests and evaluations.
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    Knowledge Practices in Workplaces (KP-Lab) -Change Laboratory (CL) - An Intervention Method for Systemically Developing Work Practices in the Rich Internet Application
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22) Rantakari, Ali ; Raček, Michal ; Höynälänmaa, Mikko ; Markkanen, Hannu ; Hiltunen, Johanna ; Schrey-Niemenmaa, Katriina
    This paper takes a look how the university created knowledge and practices at the KP-lab are applicable to the business sector. The constantly evolving information technologies and accelerated spreading of World Wide Web has brought new opportunities to the learning process. As a consequence, the process of knowledge gathering has been relocated to the different e-learning environments. Some of them are able to support a kind of interactive communication between tutor and a trainee [1, 2]. However, such tools do not support neither the information nor the observation gathering during the learning process, or the knowledge gathering which might in return result as a faster problem solving. On the basis of these assumptions, Change Laboratory (CL) is an option for information/observation gathering. With suitable interface it does not only gather information and data from the learning process but it is able to support development of new practices in the process of task solving too. The advantage of such approach is that these practices can either be developed by individuals or collaboratively in a group. Also, these can be further used in other sessions and in new methods. Thus, knowledge and practices contribute to the community in a developmental cycle.