Promoting learning in MORMED, a multilingual social networking platform

Abstract

This paper argues for an organic, bottom-up approach embracing the inherent social aspects of learning and knowledge creation. In a complex and dynamic environment learning and knowledge are cornerstones of a person's development. Individuals follow a reflective and dialectic cycle of interactions with knowledge resources and community members towards enriching knowledge and thus achieving learning. Such interactions can be supported through collaborative recommenders that facilitate individuals to select from a filtered pool of resources to meet their needs. Recommenders are considered an essential part of an innovative system that promotes learning through a people-centred, social and collaborative approach. MORMED is such an environment that utilises such intelligent knowledge-pull method towards this direction. © 2011 IEEE.