Participatory Design for Developing Web Services Supporting Learning in Communities of Practice: the Example of PALETTE

Bernadette Charlier (1) , Liliane Esnault (2) , France Henri (3) , Christine Vanoirbeek (4)

1 UNIFR - Université de Fribourg = University of Fribourg
2 EM - emlyon business school
3 Centre LICEF - TÉLUQ - Laboratoire d'Informatique Cognitive et d'Environnements de Formation - Téluq, l'université à distance de l'UQAM
4 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The paper aims at showing how Participatory Design contributes to the understanding of learning processes related to Communities of Practice (CoPs) and, at the same time, to the design and implementation of Web Services to support organisational and individual learning in CoPs. This research builds on the European PALETTE project.

Keywords: actor-network theory (ANT); participatory design methodologies; interoperable services

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Bernadette Charlier, Liliane Esnault, France Henri, Christine Vanoirbeek. Participatory Design for Developing Web Services Supporting Learning in Communities of Practice: the Example of PALETTE. Conference ICL2007, September 26 -28, 2007, 2007, Villach, Austria. 9 p. ⟨hal-00197278⟩