How to build common knowledge? …Brain-Breezing and more. Proposal Poster Theme 1 IKIT Summer Institute 2003, Toronto, August Contribution of the Dutch Inspectorate of Education, Carla van Cauwenberghe,

Key roles within the Dutch Inspectorate of Education Challenge –Open up and unlock information infrastructure –Access to tacit knowledge –Sharing expertise –Balance central-decentral Organisation –Competent teams Knowledge/Inspection –Context: Dutch school system PE,SE,VET,HE –Complex field: Quality of Education –Content: facts and figures educational field Knowledge –most important asset –research & development –reliable and quick –public function Knowledge as tool for: –management –engineering –monitoring –accountability

Abstract Whenever working in a community of professional knowledge workers one of the biggest challenges is to create a ‘map’ of available, common, shared Knowledge, in order to develop a common knowledge base and to learn from each other which ideas, knowledge, information, thoughts, opinions, differences, concepts, views, associations, or images about a topic exist in the community: using the BrainBreezing technique individuals are invited to explain their role and context, to provide their personal ideas and put them ‘on a coat-hook’, to indicate how familiar or important they feel with the item put on the ‘coat-hook’ and to explain further details about their ideas. After scoring all ideas are totalised through a special import utility and printed in order to create the ‘community map’, a start to knowledge building communities.

Tool: Brain Breezer Brain Breezing about e.g. Competencies Start the program and up you go… What is my role related to this topic? I am going to brainbreeze: choose a topic I provide more information about my topics

Creating one’s associations: Put your ideas on the ‘coat-hook’, e.g. Competency: Vision Having a clear view of the future Knowing where your organisation is heading for Range: Close – Far

I give more information about the items/ideas that I associate to the topic put on the coat-hook: How familiar am I with this item? 5 scale: little-much How important this item is to me? 5 scale: little-much Further explanation about the item that I provided

Community Mind Map Copy the data of the individual’s brain- breezer to the common database Print …