Innovations in Learning

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2. NiCE Discussion Room (Austria)

Learning with Others

The NiCE Discussion Room is a space that supports social learning. This innovation illustrates how the design of both tools and space can be coordinated to create a versatile environment for social learning to create a kind of digital ecology for learning with others. Learners can share learning resources, thoughts and ideas, thereby supporting each other to develop knowledge collectively. Sharing can be done through different media (e.g. paper and screen) whose contents may be shared or concealed as appropriate during the activity. Emerging knowledge may be captured, annotated, edited, archived and made public - all using the same technical infrastructure. The system provides a versatile single space for socially-organised learning; it emulates workplace conditions that demand brainstorming and team thinking.