The project will develop intelligent technologies to support learning and knowledge-building (LKB) activities in Intelligent Learning Extended Organisation (IntelLEO), a new paradigm representing a community that emerges as a temporal integration of two or more different business and educational communities and organisational cultures (industrial, research and educational).
The objective is to explore how the responsiveness of the LKB environments in an IntelLEO, aiming to enhance motivation of learners, proactively encouraging them to take part in LKB activities, can be radically enhanced by advanced technology exploiting a synergy between services for

• efficient management of collaborative LKB activities and access to and supply of shared content, and
• harmonisation of individual and organisational objectives.

The project will develop:

• a new Implementation Framework on how to exploit this synergy, taking into account the best social constructivist and situated learning practices in collaborative LBK for an IntelLEO
• an innovative ontological framework for learning context representation which includes learners, context and collaboration models, serving to achieve the targeted synergy
• generic and widely applicable synergetic services, fitting SOA principles, for managing collaborative LKB activities and contents within an IntelLEO, such as services for:
  • Management of Social Interactions,
  • Provision of learning resources,
  • Provision of the most appropriate LKB path for individuals/groups,
  • Scaffolding of the learning process of individuals in accordance with organisation objectives & policy.

The new services will be validated within three IntelLEOs each involving various configurations of business and educational organisations, made to share resources, skills and costs in supporting LKB activities. An analysis of socioeconomic context regarding applicability/usefulness of the proposed approach and services will be provided.