Workshop Presentation
This workshop is organised jointly by the FP7 MIRROR and ImREAL projects:
MIRROR is an IP project about “reflective learning at the workplace”, where several methods and tools to support individual, collaborative and organizational reflection are studied. In this workshop creative techniques taken from MIRROR are used to reflect on the learning context of a simulation and to envisage an appropriate, meaningful learning scenario to embed it. The specific objective that MIRROR brings to this workshop is to look at how an individual reflection can be turned into a collaborative reflection with the use of social spaces around the simulation.
ImREAL is a STREP dedicated to “Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning”. From ImREAL comes the simulation that will be the beginning of the whole series of interactive workshop activities: that of a job interview in a multicultural scenario. Also originating in ImREAL is a learning buddy to take learners through the simulation, providing appropriate support.
After an introductory morning with presentations of innovative research around the concept of Reflective Learning, the workshop objective will be: investigating how to augment learning experiences with collaborative reflection. In particular, it aims at investigating how to shape a meaningful learning scenario around a simulation, and how to augment the simulated content in order to keep the simulation realistically mapping changing and complex real-world environments as well as to train learners to act between these.
One project is thus supporting the other one: ImREAL brings the starting context and activities as well as a broad set of concepts and tools to reflect on a complex learning experience. MIRROR will profit from this by studying how the reflection process changes cognitive dimensions and at the same time achieves its aims by feeding back into ImREAL very interesting inputs about how to make the learning experience more valuable and augment it with a social dimension. Benefits are reciprocal.
MIRROR is an IP project about “reflective learning at the workplace”, where several methods and tools to support individual, collaborative and organizational reflection are studied. In this workshop creative techniques taken from MIRROR are used to reflect on the learning context of a simulation and to envisage an appropriate, meaningful learning scenario to embed it. The specific objective that MIRROR brings to this workshop is to look at how an individual reflection can be turned into a collaborative reflection with the use of social spaces around the simulation.
ImREAL is a STREP dedicated to “Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning”. From ImREAL comes the simulation that will be the beginning of the whole series of interactive workshop activities: that of a job interview in a multicultural scenario. Also originating in ImREAL is a learning buddy to take learners through the simulation, providing appropriate support.
After an introductory morning with presentations of innovative research around the concept of Reflective Learning, the workshop objective will be: investigating how to augment learning experiences with collaborative reflection. In particular, it aims at investigating how to shape a meaningful learning scenario around a simulation, and how to augment the simulated content in order to keep the simulation realistically mapping changing and complex real-world environments as well as to train learners to act between these.
One project is thus supporting the other one: ImREAL brings the starting context and activities as well as a broad set of concepts and tools to reflect on a complex learning experience. MIRROR will profit from this by studying how the reflection process changes cognitive dimensions and at the same time achieves its aims by feeding back into ImREAL very interesting inputs about how to make the learning experience more valuable and augment it with a social dimension. Benefits are reciprocal.