Scruffy Technologies to Enable (Work-integrated) Learning

www.know-center.at Abstract. The goal of the APOSDLE (Advanced Process-Oriented Self-Directed Learning environment) project is to support work-integrated learning of knowledge workers. We argue that work-integrated learning requires extreme flexibility on a variety of aspects from supportive learning systems. This flexibility can not be achieved by typical (neat) eLearning systems. In this contribution we present how a battery of scruffy technologies (e.g. combining semantics, associative networks and collective intelligence approaches) can be utilized to achieve this flexibility for user profile maintenance and contextbased retrieval. 1 Neat versus Scruffy Typically eLearning systems are a wonder of carefully designed content, finegranular models, interdependencies and hand crafted metadata: The learning domain is broken down into meaningful learning units or modules which encompass concepts, facts and processes. They entail fine granular learning information, exercises