Date

2011-11-11

Speaker

Stefanie Lindstaedt (KMI-TUG)

Summary

Today, much of knowledge work is learning. In-depth studies have shown that learning and working activities are seamlessly interwoven and can’t be separated. However, computational support for learning (eLearning) assumes that learning is a separate activity before the actual work activity takes place. That is, the “stock-piling“ approach (learn first, apply later) is still dominating the field.

Instead, our research at Knowledge Management Institute (MKI) of TU Graz and at the Know-Center is focusing on understanding how people learn at work and on building computational tools – so called knowledge services - to support it. Our knowledge services support e.g. individual learning within work tasks, collaborative knowledge maturing, and reflection at work. In this talk I will give an overview of our different technological approaches and their applications.

Slides

Video

Author's Biography

Stefanie Lindstaedt

Since October 2011 Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt is head of the Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) at Graz University of Technology (TUG) in Austria. In addition, Stefanie is heading the Knowledge Services Division of the Know-Center – Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Technologies. She is scientific coordinator of the EU-funded IPs MIRROR and APOSDLE, and is involved in a number of other European and nationally founded projects such as STELLAR NoE, MATURE IP, Organic.Lingua, and LASSO. For more than 10 years she has been leading interdisciplinary, international projects in the fields of knowledge management, technology enhanced learning, and software engineering.

For the last five years she has focused specifically on the issue of work-integrated learning and knowledge evolution. She held several responsible positions such as product manager for web-globalization services at GlobalSight in Boulder (USA) and research project manager at DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology in Ulm (Germany).

She holds a PhD and a M.Sc. both in Computer Science from the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder (USA). She is member of the Center for LifeLongLearning and Design and the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU. She is general chair of the I-Know conference series, program chair of the, part of the organizational committee of EC-TEL 2010, 2011 and 2012, has been chairing numerous workshops and tutorials, and has published more than 130 scientific publications.