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Context-Aware Workplace Learning Support: Concept, Experiences, and Remaining Challenges

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Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing (EC-TEL 2006)

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Workplace learning offers the unique possibility of the immediacy of purpose and real-world context. In order to leverage on this, we have developed a context-aware method to support workplace learning. In this paper, we want to describe the concept of context-steered learning, both from a content-driven and communication-driven perspective, and present corresponding system functionality primitives.

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Schmidt, A., Braun, S. (2006). Context-Aware Workplace Learning Support: Concept, Experiences, and Remaining Challenges. In: Nejdl, W., Tochtermann, K. (eds) Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing. EC-TEL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11876663_46

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