bib-wiki - the Austrian guidance practitioner‘s knowledge pool

Workshop Introduction Guidance in Austria bib-wiki: idea and 1st steps function and content questions and ideas / experiences and discussion

Guidance in Austria Institutions  Labour market services  Schools and universities  Institutions of further education  Organisations for vocational guidance  Supplement to other counselling offers ….

Guidance in adult education Some Characteristics  Organisation  often project-financed  in small organisations or units  (employee) fluctuation  Counsellors  part-time function as guidance counsellors  high need for up-to-date information  high need for a wide variety of information  challenge: knowledge management for guidance

bib-wiki: the idea Counsellors  need access to widespread information  own important information and experiences  are willing to cooperate  are acquainted with collegues from other organisations (network projects, formation…)  are short on time …

bib-wiki: the idea wiki and other social medias  permit sharing of information beyond the limits of organisations ESF and bmukk (ministry of education)  permit experience of innovative projects  the experiment: a common wiki for guidance in Austria

new information edits adds regional information makes a link adds topical information comments on content refreshes gets a notification living knowledge pool archive skims through contacts a collegue prints information looks for specific information

bib-wiki: the start 2008 First steps with Media-wiki core group – 5 persons anchor group - ~ 25 persons 2009 Dissemination ~30 regional introduction workshops 2010 PR, further dissemination and development cafés, tel.support, workshops, presentations, …

the benefits Users have access to relevant information  of high quality  in high quantity  to many topics  for less time and effort  whereever they are and to collegues in other organisations

some data  more than 250 users  from every Austrian country  from more than 100 organisations  about 40 authors  ~200 specific articles  ~ 7,000 adaptations

bib-wiki: we want to… … care for current users and authors … invite and support new users and authors … cooperate with new regional guidance networks … invent and test new features … support all guidance practitioners in building up the most effective and useful knowledge management in guidance

Kontakt Erika Kanelutti-Chilas in between Springergasse 3/6 OG, A-1020 Wien tel: mobil: bib-wiki ist ein Modul im Rahmen der Initiative „Bildungsberatung Österreich“ und wird aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, Abteilung Erwachsenenbildung, und des ESF Ziel 2 gefördert.