Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Exploring the outlands of the MIS discipline
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In the last years, knowledge management and technology enhanced learning are confronting a lot of new challenges due to rapid changes in business environment and technological progress. In a fast changing business environment, where jobs and roles never stand still, the slow processes of creating formal learning materials and delivering vocational training across the whole organisation can create barriers to the adoption and use of learning technologies. In work-intensive environments, a formal way of knowledge acquisition and learning (from a classroom to classic eLearning) is often insufficient, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. Furthermore, mobile devices are becoming more and more powerful. They are increasingly used in parallel to PC or notebooks especially by people who spend a lot of time on business trips. They are becoming more important for knowledge acquisition and technology-enhanced learning. Therefore, knowledge management and eLearning tools should be available not only as web application integrated in widely-used Internet platforms, but also for mobile devices. To close these gaps, the EU projects "ROLE -- Responsive Open Learning Environments" and "MIRROR -- Reflective Learning at Work" aim to support self-regulated and reflective learning-on-the-job methodologically and technically. Based on a self-regulated learning process model and reflective learning artefacts, a multi-platform prototype for self-regulated learning including reflection on the learning progress is being developed. The prototype contains integrated tools for self-regulated vocabulary training and activity tracking tools supporting reflection on the learning process. The tools are available as both web applications and mobile apps. Their application is demonstrated by a showcase scenario of mentored self-training including reflection on the learning process.