TENCompetence

Rethinking Learning and Employment at a time of economic uncertainty: Open Workshop, Manchester, November 19th and 20th 2009

2009-07-01T10:23:47+01:00

As the project approaches the end of its funding period, a number of events are being organised to show-case the project outcomes. The TENCompetence Open Workshop, Manchester is co-located with the annual conference of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and will take place on November 19th and 20th, 2009. It will combine an academic workshop with practical sessions which will provide a detailed view of the TENCompetence Personal Competence Manager and related tools. The call for papers is available here. Further details on the event and the programme of activities will be posted here as they become available. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Chris Kew at: info@tencompetence.org

Learning and Competence Development in Europe for tomorrow and beyond - Sestri Levante, Italy - July 16th

2009-06-02T11:35:09+01:00

At a time of increasing economic insecurity and the emergence of a knowledge society comes the need for employees and individuals to continuously develop and extend their knowledge and skills set regardless of age, social status or situation. Effective support for individual learners, teams and organizations in their pursuit of competence development is key to retaining a competitive edge. The TENCompetence project has responded to the need to facilitate professional lifelong learning and competence development through the design and development of an organizational and technical infrastructure. The rationale, implementation and use of the TENCompetence infrastructure will form the focus of a one-day event in in Sestri Levante, Italy on 16th July 2009. The workshop will combine an insight into the sate of the art of competence development, stimulating discussion and accounts of pilot user experiences with the TENCompetence software. The event is hosted by Italian e-learning company Giunti Labs (http://www.giuntilabs.com/) and will take place on 16th July 10.00am - 5pm at Hotel Grande AlbergoVia Vittorio Veneto 216039 - Sestri Levante ( Ge ) - Italy Participation is free of charge. Who should attend this workshop? This workshop will be of particular interest to HR professionals, employment specialists, skills development agencies and anyone with a working interest in professional competence development. Click here for the agenda Click here for directions and travel To register: http://surf.eccoo.rug.nl/sis/en/771/registration Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

Competence development: right now!

2009-04-28T13:29:19+01:00

The rationale, implementation and use of the TENCompetence infrastructure formed the focus of a one-day event in Utrecht on Thursday, 23 April. This event was hosted by the SURF foundation and was the first of many major dissemination initiatives planned for 2009. This event included participants from a number of diverse fields including: • local government representatives • union representatives • employer organisations • SMEs • careers services • human resource departments With a turnout of over 50 participants from both HE and Industry, the workshop got underway with a keynote from project leader Rob Koper whose vision of lifelong competence development sparked discussion on the nature of competence and the need for a change in the culture of education. This was followed by a series of presentations based around three project business demonstrator pilots currently being run by UNESCO-IHE, Agora adult learning and Empower Limburg. The presentations provided an overview of the problems faced by each of the organisations in their facilitation of competence development and related the ways in which the TENCompetence infrastructure was used to meet their technical and organisational needs. You can access the agenda and slides for the event here.

TENCompetence Winterschool 2009

2009-02-18T10:17:53+00:00

Thanks to Sandra Schaffert On 1-6 February 2009 the third and last TENCompetence Winter School took place in an attractive winter resort near Innsbruck, Austria. 44 people from a range of countries including Canada and Russia took part in the event. Lecturers and students worked together to create a stimulating and exciting learning environment under the theme of "Competence Management in Learning Networks". Leading TENCompetence and external experts addressed the theme from various perspectives, including:

Principles of learning networks
disagreements management
PLE mash-ups
personal development planning
learning design
Connection dynamics

The popularity and impact of social web services was also apparent during the workshop, and these services were intensively used to enhance communication and sharing of resources: Twitter (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tcws09), SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/tag/tcws09), Delicious (http://delicious.com/tag/tcws09), Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/tags/tcws09), YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYcL2nTwUo), LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1776107/), etc. Links to the workshop presentations can be accessed here. The organisers wish to thank all those who contributed to the success of these workshops. The event location inspired a number of budding winter school photographers and the results of a "best-photo" competition resulted in 5 winners - their photographs are published below. Thanks to Maria Perifanou Thanks to Martin Sillaots Thanks to Wolfgang Greller

5th TENCompetence Open Workshop - Sofia 2008

2008-11-14T12:08:51+00:00

The second of two open-workshops held in Sofia, this event set out to identify and analyse state-of-the-art research and technologies in the fields that provide the building blocks for the development of an open source competence development infrastructure. Run over a two day period, the event included a total of fifteen presentations from TENCompetence partners, Associate Partners and interested parties from outside the project. The agenda and presetations can be accessed here and the proceedings will be made available shortly.

Announcement and call for participation in a pilot study

2008-09-29T16:05:39+01:00

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Widget technologies in focus

2008-08-07T18:04:52+01:00

Desktop and web widgets are handy little things providing computer users with instantly available functions ranging from clocks to calenders to calculators to mention but a few of the more mundane applications. Combining simplicity with versatility, widgets have captured the imagination of TENCompetence researchers at the University of Bolton's Institute of Educational Cybernetics who are looking for ways to integrate chat and voting facilities into Learning Design runtime tools. Christina Smart of the e-learning focus site talks to Scott Wilson of the University of Bolton's Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) on widget technologies; what they are, how they work and their application in TENCompetence. Click here to read on.

TENCompetence workshop at ALT-C 2008

2008-08-06T09:08:52+01:00

This year's Advanced Learning Technology Conference will take place at the University of Leeds in the UK from the 9th to the 11th of September. The theme of the conference is "Rethinking the Digital Divide" and TENCompetence will be running a 90 minute hands-on workshop to allow participants to explore and evaluate the RTD outcomes of the TENCompetence project for themselves. The workshop is open to all and will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of competence frameworks, lifelong learning and distributed learning. According to the conference programme, this workshop is scheduled to take place on Thursday 11th of September at 9.00 AM Registration for the conference is open until August 15th.

Special Issue iJET: Infrastructures for Lifelong Competence Development: The 4th TENCompetence Open Workshop in Madrid 2008

2008-07-21T11:39:37+01:00

Submitted to the 4th TENCompetence Open Workshop in Madrid 2008 (http://www.tencompetence.org/node/156), a total of eleven papers have now been published in a special issue of the International Journal of Emergimg Technologies in Learning (iJET) entitled, "Infrastructures for Lifelong Competence Development: The 4th TENCompetence Open Workshop in Madrid 2008." Visit http://online-journals.org/i-jet/issue/view/30 to view a table of contents.You will need to register with iJET free of charge to access the papers.

TENCompetence Learning Design Toolkit

2008-07-07T10:07:36+01:00

The TENCompetence Learning Design Toolkit is available for download in two parts ReCourse LD author and plug-ins, and Runtime system, which provides flexible widget runtime services. There is also a support forum.

TENCompetence Track - EduMedia 2008

2008-07-02T11:48:49+01:00

Click here to access the published proceedings for this event. As well as playing host to a festival of football this summer, the picturesque city of Salzburg provided the setting for this year's EduMedia conference. Over the last few years the Edumedia conference has successfully attracted researchers and practitioners from mostly German speaking countries. With a special focus on self-organised learners in the interactive web, this year’s conference included a TENCompetence strand with presentations on advanced learning technologies and the ways in which they can be used to support self-organized learners. The TENCompetence track consisted of 3-5 time slots with 2-3 presentations per slot. The track focused on the question of which tools, methods, frameworks and architectures are best suited to support self-organized learners in their competence development process. The event was geared towards the interests of educational technologists, scientists, elearning trainers & teachers. Selected contributions from the track will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Educational Technology & Society published in late 2008/early 2009. Click here to access the published proceedings for this event.

4th Competence Open Workshop in Madrid

2008-04-30T13:18:45+01:00

Despite the uncharacteristically wet weather, Spain's capital provided an impressively stylish backdrop for the 4th TENCompetence Open workshop. The presentations are available here.Proceedings are available from: http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/1254 Organised by ALTRAN SDB in conjunction with the University of Amsterdam (UVA), the workshop spanned two whole days. Seventeen papers were earmarked for presentation, fourteen of which were accepted for publication in the proceedings. Introductions from organizers Miguel Arjona(ALTRAN SDB), Henk Sligte (UvA) and project leader Rob Koper were followed by a presentation from Rob in the form of an interactive competence development scenario designed to demonstrate the purpose and functionality of the Personal Competence Manager. The session highlighted the obstacles faced by an individual wishing to develop competence in a specific domain and focused on the solutions offered by TENCompetence. The main body of the proceedings comprised paper presentations relating to a number of themes including:

Pilots and Practices
The integrated architecture
Group Interaction and Group Learning
Assessment

The agenda and presentations from the workshop can be found here. The proceedings can be accessed from: http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/1254

Winterschool 2008

2008-03-05T09:11:30+00:00

On 18-22 February 2008 the second TENCompetence Winter School took place in Innsbruck. 15 lecturers and 35 attendees from a variety of backgrounds and countries (not only PhD students and not only from Europe) created a stimulating and exciting learning environment.The presentations are available here. The main theme was Personal Competence Management, which forms the focus of the TENCompetence project. In keeping with this theme, a number of different project outcomes were presented, including the Personal Competence Management system itself. Although most of the Winterschool lecturers were active partners in the project, a number of external lecturers presented some alternative perspectives: Ambjörn Naeve from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden introduced the LUISA approach (Learning content management system UsingInnovative Semantic web services Architecture) whilst Ronald Maier of the University of Innsbruck explained the objectives of the new MATURE project. Ken Currie of CAPDM presented a corporate application based on the way to interpret, design and implement a functional Competency Framework, and Ralf Klamma of Aachen University brought a Web 2.0 perspective onto the concept of competence development. One of the highlights of the Winterschool was a simulation game run by Albert Angehrn and Katrina Maxwell of TENCompetence partner INSEAD. In the closing stages of the event, Scott Wilson of the University of Bolton looked at the current state of the art in digital identity management. Participants took the opportunity to organize their own sessions and discuss their experience using social software in learning as well as interoperability issues. For those left standing at the end of the day, there were several informal evening discussions with Ambjörn Naeve and Ton van der Moolen. Sport and leisure activities on Wednesday afternoon offered a chance for attendees to develop a special range of competences in snowboarding, skiing, and sledging! The whole week is well documented by the collection of more than 1000 photos taken by the participants themselves at http://flickr.com/photos/tags/winterschool2008/ The presentations are available here.

TENCompetence Open Workshop - Madrid April 10,11th 2008

2007-12-14T07:39:04+00:00

TENCompetence Open Workshop 2008 TENCompetence Open Workshop: Empowering Learners for Lifelong Competence Development: pedagogical, organisational and technological issues Location: Madrid, Espana Venue: Hotel Santo Domingo, Madrid Start: April 10, 2008, 09:00 hrs End: April 11, 2008, 17:00 hrs Introduction This workshop is organised by the EU 6th Framework Integrated Project TENCompetence. The objective of the workshop is to identify and analyse current research and technologies in the fields that provide design guidelines and evidence for powerful interfaces, interaction and navigation support, and tailor-made competence development opportunities for individual learners, teams and organisations. These actors and organisations (will) use open source infrastructures that contain all the services to (further) develop their competences, using all the distributed knowledge resources (including actors), learning activities, units of learning and learning routes/ programmes that are available online. Theme The main theme of this workshop is to provide an overview on current research on support and empowerment of learners in relation to their competence development. The theme includes, but is not limited to support for learners in: · managing and creating competence profiles and e-portfolios · becoming aware of their competences and establishing their position within a learning network, compared to peers and resources · finding adequate resources, both material resources and peers · knowledge management · creating their own learning paths · monitoring of their competence development progress · giving and receiving help from tutors and peers Research may be performed at all levels of implementation and includes: · conceptual models, both pedagogical and/or organisational · learning designs · software, varying from software agents to whole infrastructures, explicitly including open source systems Also, all stages of the research cycle are welcomed, including: · validation and evaluation of existing systems and models · development of new systems and models · reviews of literature, meta-analyses and descriptions of state-of-the art Topics Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not limited to: · Personal data, profiles, and portable ePortfolios for competence registration · Competence description frameworks for professions · Learner positioning · Technologies for the discovery of suitable learning resources · Collaborative filtering technologies, recommend or systems for learning · Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of knowledge resources, learning activities or units of learning · Knowledge Management issues related to competence development, lifelong learning or HRM · Research and technology development to support users in creating adequate learning designs (e.g. software agents or design aids) · Navigational support to users in a learning network · Personalised and collaborative trails using knowledge resources or learning activities · Research and technology development of pedagogical and organisational models and scenarios for competence development, and their validation · Competence assessment, including self-assessment · Monitoring (changes in) competences in professions · Social software usable for lifelong competence development · Dynamic discovery of, and collaboration between, informal learning groups · New social theories and practices which have implications for Competence Development · Methods and tools to support learners in distributed environments, peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring, coaching · Learning Design for formal and informal Lifelong Learning and Competence Development · Mobile support for lifelong competence development · Semantic Web and lifelong competence development · Use of language technologies to support learning processes · Models and tools supporting work-based learning · Open standards and specifications usable for learning networks · Gender issues related to competence development and competence management · Evaluations of existing systems and open source infrastructures · Studies defining the current state-of-the-art in learning systems and open source infrastructures for lifelong competence development · Advanced instruments and technologies for the evaluation of competence development management (gaming, collaborative learning, competence development, ePortfolios) Workshop LanguageEnglish Publication of Proceedings All papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the official ISBN workshop proceedings and will be distributed to the participants after the workshop via Ten Competence’s dSpace. Selected papers will be invited to submit a full paper (4000 words) for a special issue of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning devoted to the outcomes of the workshop. Workshop Chair ROB KOPER [OPEN UNIVERSITY - NL] HENK SLIGTE [UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM - NL]MEMBERS

WILFRIED ADMIRAAL [UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM - NL]
JOSEP BLAT [UNIVERSITY POMPEU FABRE - ES]
JACQUELINE BOURDEAU [LICEF RESEARCH CENTER-TELE-UNIVERSITY - CA]
CHRISTOPHE CHOQUET [L'UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE - FR]
NOOR CHRISTOPH [ELSEVIER - NL]
MAARTJE VAN DAALEN [UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM - NL]
DAI GRIFFITHS [UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON - UK]
HENRY HERMANS [OPEN UNIVERSITY - NL]
JOSÉ JANSSEN [OPEN UNIVERSITY - NL]
OLEG LIBER [UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON - UK]
JOOST MEIJER [UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM - NL]
AGATHE MERCERON [UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES BERLIN - DE]
WOLFGANG NEJDL [L3S RESEARCH CENTER - DE]
GRIFF RICHARDS [SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY - CA]
JUDITH SCHOONENBOOM [UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM - NL]
NADIRA SAAB [UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN - NL]
PATRICK SINS [UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT - NL]
PETER SLOEP [OPEN UNIVERSITY - NL]

Local organising Committee contact details ALTRAN SDB Parque Empresarial las Mercedes Av Aragón 330, Edificio 1 (entrance Calle Campezo 1) 28022 Madrid Contact persons: Laura Penelas [ laura@altransdb.com] Miguel Arjona [ marjona@altransdb.com] Tel: +(34) 91.744.46.00 Fax: +(34) 91.415.24.57 Registration The registration form (see below) may be downloaded at: http://www.tencompetence.org/files/madrid/reg_madrid.doc Please complete it and send it as an email attachment to: henk.sligte@uva.nl Henk Sligte, SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut for Educational Research, Amsterdam. The Netherlands Deadline for registration: March 8, 2008 Fees € 80 The fee covers conference attendance, materials, lunches, refreshments over the two days. Conference dinner April 10, 2008; separate subscription necessary. Price €40 Location The main conference venue will be at Hotel Santo Domingo Madrid (http://www.hotelsantodomingo.com/) Plaza de Santo Domingo, 13 28013 Madrid (Spain) Phone: +34 91 547 98 00 Fax: +34 91 547 59 95Email: reserva@hotelsantodomingo.com Accommodation A number of rooms have been pre-reserved at a rate of €115 per night (tax not included: 7%). Do not hesitate to check the Web for better deals, or for other places to stay. More details on the event including the call for papers can be found at: http://www.tencompetence.org/node/145Additional details on the event will be made available here in due course.

Call for Papers (Extended to February 29)- TENCompetence Open Workshop - Madrid 2008

2007-12-14T06:24:45+00:00

TENCompetence Open Workshop 2008 Deadline for contributions extended to February 29 TENCompetence Open Workshop: Empowering Learners for Lifelong Competence Development: pedagogical, organisational and technological issues Location: Madrid, Espana Venue: Hotel Santo Domingo, Madrid Start: April 10, 2008, 09:00 hrs End: April 11, 2008, 17:00 hrs Introduction This workshop is organised by the EU 6th Framework Integrated Project TENCompetence. The objective of the workshop is to identify and analyse current research and technologies in the fields that provide design guidelines and evidence for powerful interfaces, interaction and navigation support, and tailor-made competence development opportunities for individual learners, teams and organisations. These actors and organisations (will) use open source infrastructures that contain all the services to (further) develop their competences, using all the distributed knowledge resources (including actors), learning activities, units of learning and learning routes/ programmes that are available online. Theme The main theme of this workshop is to provide an overview on current research on support and empowerment of learners in relation to their competence development. The theme includes, but is not limited to support for learners in: · managing and creating competence profiles and e-portfolios · becoming aware of their competences and establishing their position within a learning network, compared to peers and resources · finding adequate resources, both material resources and peers · knowledge management · creating their own learning paths · monitoring of their competence development progress · giving and receiving help from tutors and peers Research may be performed at all levels of implementation and includes: · conceptual models, both pedagogical and/or organisational · learning designs · software, varying from software agents to whole infrastructures, explicitly including open source systems Also, all stages of the research cycle are welcomed, including: · validation and evaluation of existing systems and models · development of new systems and models · reviews of literature, meta-analyses and descriptions of state-of-the art Topics Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not limited to: · Personal data, profiles, and portable ePortfolios for competence registration · Competence description frameworks for professions · Learner positioning · Technologies for the discovery of suitable learning resources · Collaborative filtering technologies, recommend or systems for learning · Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of knowledge resources, learning activities or units of learning · Knowledge Management issues related to competence development, lifelong learning or HRM · Research and technology development to support users in creating adequate learning designs (e.g. software agents or design aids) · Navigational support to users in a learning network · Personalised and collaborative trails using knowledge resources or learning activities · Research and technology development of pedagogical and organisational models and scenarios for competence development, and their validation · Competence assessment, including self-assessment · Monitoring (changes in) competences in professions · Social software usable for lifelong competence development · Dynamic discovery of, and collaboration between, informal learning groups · New social theories and practices which have implications for Competence Development · Methods and tools to support learners in distributed environments, peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring, coaching · Learning Design for formal and informal Lifelong Learning and Competence Development · Mobile support for lifelong competence development · Semantic Web and lifelong competence development · Use of language technologies to support learning processes · Models and tools supporting work-based learning · Open standards and specifications usable for learning networks · Gender issues related to competence development and competence management · Evaluations of existing systems and open source infrastructures · Studies defining the current state-of-the-art in learning systems and open source infrastructures for lifelong competence development · Advanced instruments and technologies for the evaluation of competence development management (gaming, collaborative learning, competence development, ePortfolios) Workshop LanguageEnglish Publication of Proceedings All papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the official ISBN workshop proceedings and will be distributed to the participants after the workshop via Ten Competence’s dSpace. Selected papers will be invited to submit a full paper (4000 words) for a special issue of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning devoted to the outcomes of the workshop. Workshop Chair Rob Koper (Netherlands) Co- Chair Henk Sligte (Netherlands) Co-chair Miguel Arjona (Spain) Programme Committee:Judith Schoonenboom, Netherlands Barry Harper, Australia Joachim Hasebrook, Germany Roger Hartley, UK Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany Roumen Nikolov, Bulgaria Mike Spector, USA Peter Goodyear, Australia Terry Anderson, Canada Albert Angehrn, France John Erpenbeck, Germany Kinshuk, New Zealand Oleg Liber, UK David Merrill, USA Gilbert Pacquette, Canada Griff Richards, Canada Bernard Scott, UK Demetrios Sampson, Greece David Wiley, USA Local organising Committee contact details ALTRAN SDB Parque Empresarial las Mercedes Av Aragón 330, Edificio 1 (entrance Calle Campezo 1) 28022 Madrid Contact persons: Laura Penelas [ laura@altransdb.com] Miguel Arjona [ marjona@altransdb.com] Tel: +(34) 91.744.46.00 Fax: +(34) 91.415.24.57 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Deadline for paper submissions February 15, 2008 During the workshop it will be possible to present a paper of 2000 words. These submissions may include Research, Technology Development, Review and Application but are not limited to these only. Furthermore, participants can submit a proposal for a demonstration session to demonstrate relevant software. Electronic submissions should be forwarded as a Portable Document Format (.pdf) attachment to: henk.sligte@uva.nl All submissions must be papers of 2000 words and formatted according to the publication guidelines published at: http://ld06.uni-sofia.bg/CFP_Instructions%20for%20Authors.pdf All authors will be informed of the results of the review process and whether or not their papers were accepted for the publication in the workshop proceedings by February 29, 2008 at the latest. Full papers Invitation to submit full papers by April 18, 2008 at the latest (less than 50% of total number of submitted papers). Full papers will be reviewed by members of the programme committee. Accepted full papers are due in formatted form by May 9 at the latest. Papers will be published in the June 2008 issue of International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET). Registration The registration form (see below) may be downloaded at: http://www.tencompetence.org/files/madrid/reg_madrid.doc Please complete it and send it as an email attachment to: henk.sligte@uva.nl Henk Sligte, SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut for Educational Research, Amsterdam. The Netherlands Deadline for registration: March 8, 2008 Fees € 80 The fee covers conference attendance, materials, lunches, refreshments over the two days. Conference dinner April 10, 2008; separate subscription necessary. Price €40 Location The main conference venue will be at Hotel Santo Domingo Madrid (http://www.hotelsantodomingo.com/) Plaza de Santo Domingo, 13 28013 Madrid (Spain) Phone: +34 91 547 98 00 Fax: +34 91 547 59 95Email: reserva@hotelsantodomingo.com Accommodation A number of rooms have been pre-reserved at a rate of €115 per night (tax not included: 7%). Do not hesitate to check the Web for better deals, or for other places to stay.