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 Language

English

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 95

Email: 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.