Abstract
In the digital realm, meaning making is reflected in the reciprocal manipulation of mediating artefacts. We understand uptake, i.e. interaction with and understanding of others’ artefact interpretations, as central mechanism and investigate its impact on individual and social learning at work. Results of our social tagging field study indicate that increased uptake of others’ tags is related to a higher shared understanding of collaborators as well as narrower and more elaborative exploration in individual information search. We attribute the social and individual impact to accommodative processes in the high uptake condition.
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Three participants (N = 17) collected not more than 8 resources and one only 6, resulting in 13(users) * 8(positions) + 3(users) * 7(positions) + 1(users) * 5(positions) = 130 data points.
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The work is funded by Know-Center GmbH (COMET Program managed by AT Research Promotion Agency FFG), Austrian Science Fund (FWF; Grant Project: 25593-G22) and EU-IP Learning Layers (Grant Agreement: 318209).
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Dennerlein, S., Seitlinger, P., Lex, E., Ley, T. (2016). Take up My Tags: Exploring Benefits of Meaning Making in a Collaborative Learning Task at the Workplace. In: Verbert, K., Sharples, M., Klobučar, T. (eds) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning. EC-TEL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_30
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