Building on the foundations collaborative learning, knowledge co-construction, individual and organizational learning as well as on the alignment of business objectives and learning directions, the objective of WP 6 is to provide support for collaborative reflection and articulation work for knowledge construction. In this, the WP includes the following objectives:

• Objective 6.1: Deepen the understanding of collaborative reflection on shared work data
• Objective 6.2: Support of articulation work for learning at the work place
• Objective 6.3: Support of collaborative knowledge construction by scaffolding, facilitation and guidance
• Objective 6.4: Supporting workers to build synergy between their own results of reflection with those of others

 Work on these objectives will not only include the creation of new insights on collaborative reflection and corresponding applications, but will also embed and combine methodological aspects and applications into a concept of socio-technical support for collaborative knowledge construction by mutual reflection of recorded work sequences. This support will combine organisational methods, information technology and strategies of intervention (socio-technical patterns, methods and tools) in order to facilitate the knowledge construction process and make its outcomes visible, shareable and sustainably available in the organization. As a result of WP 6, this support will promote collaborative creativity, the emergence of new ideas and the sharing of perspectives in the context of the reflection on and comparison of work practices or learning experiences over a longer time period. This will be done by make the outcomes of the knowledge construction process visible, shareable and sustainably available in the organisation. This transcends the scope of existing solutions in this area.

With respect to other WPs, WP 6 aims at providing novel approaches for individual learning by reflection and observation (cf. WP4) as well as for organizational learning (cf. WP 8). The focus is on longer term collaborative knowledge construction in groups using IT based collaboration tools, and comparison of multiple instances of problem-solving (drawn from WP5) or representations of work practices, with articulation leading to knowledge integration at the level of teams, organizations and communities.

Considering existing work, WP 6 will go beyond this work in providing a solution of applying individual and collaborative knowledge construction to recorded work data, by creating support for articulation work needed for this reflection, by transferring the concept of scaffolding to the generic scope of reflection and by combining these solutions into a socio-technical framework, which intertwines organisational measures, technical support and intervention strategies.