Thijs LAEVEN,

Amsterdam Archiefschool

Brussels

DLM Forum ‘99

A Dutch experience in digital records education

and training

innovation and collaboration; towards a transnational course

‘Change of perspective’

a five days seminar cycle on electronic records by

the Archiefschool of the Netherlands

towards a new role for the “new” recordkeeping professional

traditional “lifecycle” perspective

• phases in lifecycle well demarcated

• functions strictly separated

• single discipline & specialisation

• object orientation

• document tracking & tracing

• ‘wait-and-see’

• operating at the back end

changing perspective

• multi discipline & integration

• process orientation

• digital documents and contexts

• ‘I-can-help-you’

• operating at the front end

• interwoven with primary process

• different functions same concerns

changing perspective for the “new” recordkeeping professional

= in fact based upon:

• Post-custodial approach

• Records continuum paradigm

• Business process orientation

to support the migration from the traditional to the new perspective:

five days seminar cycle

pedagogical characteristics

• dual learning

• active learning

• experience learning

• anticipation learning

• collegial (network) learning

• cyclic learning

learning cycle

discussion of theory related to practice

treatment of cases to apply theory

preparatory reading: state of the art

application on the job to daily practice problems

orientationorientation

application application

off-the-joboff-the-job

explorationexploration

application application

on-the-jobon-the-job

overview of the seminar cycle

preparatoryreading on-the-job

applicationtheory cases

final discussion

preparatoryreading

on-the-jobapplication

theory cases

seminars 1-4

seminars 5

problem & solution approach

elements / aspects of the ‘problem or risk analysis’

elements / aspects of the ‘solution policy paper’

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

Day 5 = integrated policy paper

cohesion & consistency measures

• cyclic character

• problem orientation

• teachers’ guide × students’ guide

• advance organisers

• control tasks

• developers’ project group

• train-the-trainer program

evaluation results

• understanding literature

• lacking facilities on-the-job

• possibilities of transfer

improvements

• embedding in pedagogic context

• three parties agreement

• stronger problem orientation

further innovations / initiatives by the Archiefschool

• permanent platform for exchanging experiences

• interactive problem solution & policy making

• access to (remote) sources of expertise

leading to:

further innovations

• distance learning in open learning space

• “postcustodial” education: time and place independent

• unraveling pedagogical setting and body of knowledge

eventually: wwwebization