TENCompetence Workshop issues a call for papers on:

STIMULATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING

October, 30-31, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria

EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20th October 2008

This workshop is organized by the EU 6th Framework Integrated Project
TENCompetence (www.tencompetence.org). The goal of the workshop is 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 infrastructure containing all services needed to support
individuals, teams and organisations to (further) develop their
competences, by using distributed knowledge resources and learning
units, routes/programmes, and activities, that are available online.
This includes open, usable and accessible services for:

* creation, sharing, discovery and use of knowledge resources,
learning activities and learning paths by individuals, teams or
organisations

* development, use, monitoring and maintenance of competence
frameworks for different professions or domains of knowledge

* assessment of competences
* registration, use and sharing of personal data (profiles,
portfolios, etc.)

* discovery of suitable learning resources that are adapted to the
users needs and profile

* support of users to navigate through all available learning resources
to build specific competences

* support for users to learn in new fields and for the people who
provide the support (e.g. by providing monitoring services, help by email handling, etc.).

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Workshop topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

* Learning design for formal and informal lifelong learning and
competence development.
* Knowledge management issues related to competence development,
lifelong learning or HRM.
* Competence description frameworks for professions.
* Monitoring (changes in) competences in professions.
* Competence assessment and learner positioning.
* Methods and tools for learner support in distributed environments.
* Methods and tools to support peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring,
coaching, etc.
* Personal data, profiles, and portable ePortfolios for competence
registration.
* Technologies for the discovery of suitable learning resources.
* Collaborative filtering technologies, recommender systems for
learning.
* Use of language technologies to support learning processes.
* Navigational support to users in a learning network.
* Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of knowledge resources.
* Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of learning activities
or units of learning.
* Open standards and specifications usable for learning networks.
* Social software usable for lifelong competence development.
* New social theories and practices which have implications for the
competence development.
* Models and tools supporting work-based learning.
* Personalised and collaborative trails using knowledge resources or
learning activities.
* Mobile support for lifelong competence development.
* The Semantic Web and lifelong competence development.

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Submission
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Submissions are invited that report research, technology development,
reviews, evaluations, and applications. Furthermore, participants
can submit proposals for the workshop demonstration session to
demonstrate relevant software.

Deadline for submission: 20th October 2008.

Electronic submissions should be forwarded as a Portable Document
Format (.pdf) attachment to:

pd08@uni-sofia.bg

All submissions must be papers of up to 2000 words that are
formatted according to the workshop publication guidelines.

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Workshop proceedings
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All papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the
workshop proceedings with ISBN and will be distributed to the
participants after the workshop. Extended versions (up to 4000 words)
of selected workshop papers will be invited for publication in a
special issue of the International Journal of Continuing Engineering
Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL).

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Workshop Chairs
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Rob Koper (Netherlands) - Chair
Krassen Stefanov (Bulgaria) – Co-chair
Darina Dicheva (USA) – IJCEELL Publication Co-chair

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Workshop Committee
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Heidrun Allert, Austria
Terry Anderson, Canada
Albert Angehrn, France
Miguel Arjona Villanueva, Spain
Sue Bennett, Australia
Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy
Juan Manuel Dodero, Spain
Dai Griffith, Spain
Barry Harper, Australia
Roger Hartley, UK
Richard Hotte, Canada
Kinshuk, New Zealand
Ralf Klamma, Germany
Ruud Lemmers, The Netherlands
Oleg Liber, UK
David Merrill, USA
Patrick McAndrew, UK
Ambjörn Naeve, Sweden
Daniel Olmedilla, Germany
Griff Richards, Canada
Demetrios Sampson, Greece
Judith Schoonenboom, The Netherlands
Bernard Scott, UK
Peter Scott, UK
Marcus Specht, The Netherlands
Mike Spector, USA
Colin Tattersall, The Netherlands
Luk Vervenne, Belgium
Martin Weller, UK
David Wiley, USA

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Contact
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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
Centre of Information Society Technologies (CIST)
125, Tzarigradsko Shosse, 1113 Sofia
Tel: +(359 2) 9713509 ; 8657111
Fax: +(359 2) 9713504 ; +(359 2) 8687422
Email: pd08@uni-sofia.bg