%0 Conference Proceedings %1 sporer2008developing %A Sporer, Thomas %A Jenert, Tobias %A Meyer, Philip %A Metscher, Johannes %C Wien %D 2008 %I Chesapeake, AACE %K %P pp. 3063-3070 %T Developing a platform for the integration of informal learning into the formal curriculum of higher education %X At the University of Augsburg a co-curricular study programme has been introduced which makes it possible to integrate informal project activities into the formal curriculum of the bachelor/master programme "Media and Communication". This paper gives an overview of the didactic concept of this co-curricular study programme and shows how a social software system was designed, which integrates different tools like e-portfolios, social networking and e-assessment, to support this didactic concept. For this purpose the philosophy of design-based research, the modelling approach of usage-centered design and methods of agile software development have been employed.

@proceedings{sporer2008developing, abstract = {At the University of Augsburg a co-curricular study programme has been introduced which makes it possible to integrate informal project activities into the formal curriculum of the bachelor/master programme "Media and Communication". This paper gives an overview of the didactic concept of this co-curricular study programme and shows how a social software system was designed, which integrates different tools like e-portfolios, social networking and e-assessment, to support this didactic concept. For this purpose the philosophy of design-based research, the modelling approach of usage-centered design and methods of agile software development have been employed.}, added-at = {2009-09-02T13:17:32.000+0200}, address = {Wien}, author = {Sporer, Thomas and Jenert, Tobias and Meyer, Philip and Metscher, Johannes}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21d3c3af687a231e9ffe4be406657183d/metschjo}, interhash = {c6b637cbe6271006bab7560418ea7da1}, intrahash = {1d3c3af687a231e9ffe4be406657183d}, keywords = {}, pages = {pp. 3063-3070}, publisher = {Chesapeake, AACE}, timestamp = {2009-09-03T09:13:47.000+0200}, title = {Developing a platform for the integration of informal learning into the formal curriculum of higher education}, year = 2008 }