Tim Weinert
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  • Publication
    Shared digital artifacts – Co-creators as beneficiaries in microlearning development
    ( 2023)
    Marian Thiel De Gafenco
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    Tim Weinert
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    Andreas Janson
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    Jens Klusmeyer
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    Jan Marco Leimeister
    Continuing vocational training benefits from the employees’ ability to share individual experience and expertise with their co-workers, as these assets constitute competitive advantages for companies. IT-supported systems can facilitate processes of knowledge elicitation (e. g. as part of collaborative co-creation) to ensure retainment of preferred qualitative characteristics of the resulting knowledge artifacts and provide ample opportunities to manage and configure a growing number of such artifacts in a company’s repository. It remains unclear however, how such collaborative and digital co-creation processes can benefit the individual co-creators’ expertise development. To address this gap in research and practice, an IT-supported co-creation system for microlearnings is designed and evaluated with master craftsman trainees of an inter-company vocational training center. With the deployment of the co-creation system, knowledge elaboration was examined via a qualitative evaluation of concept maps. By applying categories of the maps’ semantic properties and comparing features of expert knowledge derived from expertise research and concept mapping literature, we evaluate the process’ function to support expert knowledge elaboration as a desirable learning outcome for co-creators of shared digital artifacts. Analysis of the concept maps shows an absence of theoretical reasoning and an emphasis on contextual factors with minute details of work processes, indicating more practical than expert knowledge formation when co-creating shared digital artifacts. To improve the IT system’s effective support for expert knowledge elicitation, adjustments to the structured procedure are discussed and future research directions and limitations of this study are addressed.
    Type: journal article
    Journal: Education and Information Technologies (Educ Inf Technol)
    URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-023-12074-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10639-023-12074-z
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117959
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    Vocational Training with Microlearning - How Low-Immersive 360-Degree Learning Environments Support Work-Process-Integrated Learning
    ( 2022-05-23)
    Billert, Matthias Simon
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    Weinert, Tim
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    Thiel de Gafenco, Marian
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    Janson, Andreas
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    Klusmeyer, Jens
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    Leimeister, Jan Marco
    In-company training is facing new challenges in preparing employees for the demands of digitalized and automated manufacturing. New training concepts like microlearning are necessary to support work-process-related learning. To handle the limitations of microlearning, we develop a 360-degree learning system to demonstrate a realistic work environment. Nonetheless, there is a lack of design knowledge supporting the motivation and performance of employees using the system. Based on a systematic literature review and semi-structured interviews, we have developed design requirements for interactive 360-degree learning environments. We used a workshop-based mixed-method approach with interviews, concept maps, and video analysis to evaluate the motivation and performance of precision mechanics within a prototypical work-process-oriented learning environment in an inter-company vocational training center. The results show a positive effect on learning outcomes and motivation. In addition, the ease of use and sense of presence while using the learning environment are rated as high. We contribute to theory by shedding new light on learners' motivation and performance within work-process-oriented interactive 360-degree learning environments. Furthermore, we offer guidelines for developing such interactive 360-degree learning environments.
    Type: journal article
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 5
    DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2022.3176777
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/108700
    Scopus© Citations 11
  • Publication
    Designing a Co-creation System for the Development of Work-process-related Learning Material in Manufacturing
    (Springer Nature, 2022-01-12)
    Weinert, Tim
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    Billert, Matthias
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    Thiel de Gafenco, Marian
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    Janson, Andreas
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    Leimeister, Jan Marco
    The increasing digitalization and automatization in the manufacturing industry as well as the need to learn on the job has reinforced the need for much more granular learning, which has not yet impacted the design of learning materials. In this regard, granular learning concepts require situated learning materials to support self-directed learning in the workplace in a targeted manner. Co-creation approaches offer promising opportunities to support employees in the independent design of such situated learning materials. Using an action-design research (ADR) approach, we derived requirements from co-creation concepts and practice by conducting focus group workshops in manufacturing and vocational training schools to develop design principles for a co-creation system that supports employees through the creation process of work-process-related learning material. Consequently, we formulate four design principles for the design of a collaborative learning and qualification system for manufacturing. Using an innovative mixed methods approach, we validate these design principles and design features to demonstrate the success of the developed artifact. The results provide insights regarding the design of a co-creation system to support learners in the co-creation of learning material with the consideration of cognitive load (CL). Our study contributes to research and practice by proposing novel design principles for supporting employees in peer creation processes. Furthermore, our study reveals how co-creation systems can support the collaborative development of learning materials in the work process.
    Type: journal article
    Journal: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10606-021-09420-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s10606-021-09420-5
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/109077
    Scopus© Citations 8
  • Publication
    Type: book
    URL: https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/handle/123456789/13916
    DOI: 10.17170/kobra-202206016269
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/109589