Scrum Embedded in the Blogs Approach for Education

Worldwide technological improvements, suitable to be applied in the educational process, brough a number of useful tools that can be used by teachers for their specific teaching and learning methods. However, the classical teaching and learning methods proved to be, most of them, insufficient during this Covid-19 pandemic period. Therefore, the new events such as lockout or scenarios when half of the students attend the class in classroom (onsite) and the other half assist the class (online), have challenged professors to find “overnight” improved or totally different methods of teaching and learning. All these novel methods must be developed based on digital up-to-date tools, no matter the subject taught. This paper addresses advanced tools for teaching and learning based on blogs embedded with Scrum Agile project management methods, and integrating Augmented Reality. All these have been successfully used in education, namely teaching and learning the Electronics subject for students in ninth class of study. The outcomes, following applying these methods during these tough times, according to teachers, proved to be really useful for students who took part in this study. The students not only acquired new information, they strived for the best results and, due to the continuous and constant interest showed by teachers for them, they successfully pass the final evaluation with high grades. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

A learning-by-doing based framework for micro-knowledge management in project contexts

BACKGROUND: There is a general acknowledgement of projects as sites of knowledge creation, but in multi-project contexts, we witness at times a lack of robust procedures that would ensure harvesting the lessons learned. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims at providing an operational conceptual framework for micro-knowledge management, depicting knowledge as created by individuals performing project activities. METHODS: Documentation on relevant literature and observation of current managerial practices and tools, in order to use the underpinnings of experiential education for managing learning-by-doing knowledge creation. RESULTS: Developing the framework led to identifying the decision-making processes in micro-knowledge management and their correlation with human resources management Secondly - we have shown the need for a coherent integration of knowledge deliverables into the project management tools and practices, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: Micro-knowledge management points to a recurrent assessment of the opportunity for micro-knowledge codification and/or staff retention based on tacit professional or biographical knowledge of the project team members. The framework offers a balance between the detachment of knowledge from the owners, in codification, and affirming the irreducible tacit and personal dimensions of learning-by-doing. © 2020 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.