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 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 [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 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.

 

More details on the event including the call for papers can be found at: 

http://www.tencompetence.org/node/145

Additional details on the event will be made available here in due course.