TENCompetence: The European Network for Competence Development Chris Kew CETIS April

Introduction TENCompetence aims: to build The European Network for Lifelong Competence Development How? By providing a technical and organizational Infrastructure Who for? For use by any citizen, team or organization What for? To build their competences

In Europe today…......it is generally acknowledged that: 1.Lifelong Learning is essential to sustained economic growth 2.Lifelong learning must be adapted to take into account individual and local characteristics (preferences, needs, language, etc.) 3.Use of ICT/the Internet is key to achieving Lifelong competence development

What is Competence? bridge the worlds of education, training, knowledge management, HRM & informal learning are bound by an occupation, a profession, a market (i.e. a particular life or work situation) are thus the ability of an actor to act effectively and efficiently in such a situation Sloep, P., and Kew, C (2006)

Managing Competence Development (1/2) Competence development today involves: Use of many different systems spread across different institutions and organisations User confronted with confusing array of interfaces, representation types and applications. Result: High Cognitive Load

Managing competence development (2/2) TENCompetence aims to provide an all-in-one solution in the form of a coordinating framework which will also help the user to: Define the competence profile and competences which will enable her to achieve her goals Identify competence development opportunities to enable acquisition of required competences Select and carry out development programmes Assess competences acquired both formally and informally. What form will the framework take?

Personal Competence Manager

Use Cases Core Use Cases 1.Want to keep up-to-date in current job (or function) 2.Want to improve a specific competence 3.Want to study for a new job (or function)

How will it work? (1/3) One learning network per domain: Opticians network, Healthcare network, Rock Climbers,.. One competence framework per learning network specifying effective performance (proficiency level) Competence Development Programmes that are aimed at the attainment of proficiency of one or more competences in the competence framework (Sloep, P. 2006)

How will it work? (2/2) Learning activities or units of learning (UoLs) that are available to and shared in the network and are the building blocks of the programmes Knowledge resources that are available to and shared in the network and are used in the learning activities and units of learning (Sloep, P. 2006)

How will it work (3/3) Members of the learning network are ‘learners’ and suppliers of learning activities and resources (wide range) Members do things, find learning activities & programmes, learn, share & discuss what they are doing, support each other, provide all kinds of feedback (Sloep, P. 2006)

Select a competence profile Competence development plans Contact agent for advice, connection etc. rate plans and search for further information within the network via forums access to friends and people

Manderveld, J (2006)

Why the TENCompetence PCM? Supported by all Competence Based SystemsAdditional features added in the TENCompetence PCM Competence info remains on isolated institutional servers Competence info aggregated and presented to user Competence development plans created and managed “top down”. Personal development of competence development plans Institutionally driven competence development plans are strongly linked to the needs of individual organisational. This leads to an inflexible workforce. Personally driven competence development maximizes flexibility in the workforce. It also contributes to personal enrichment & personal fulfillment. Users find it convenient to work with a single provider of competence development programmes Users are supported in working with a variety of competence development programmes from different sources. Taken from Griffiths, D. 2006

Research and Technological Development

Implementation Plan

Aspect RTD Activities Purpose: to produce a collection of models, methods and tools which will be integrated into an overall infrastructure. Knowledge resources and knowledge management for the creation, storage, use and exchange of knowledge resources Learning activities and units of learning for the creation, storage, use and exchange of formal and informal learning activities Creation, storage, use and exchange of formal and informal competence development programmes Networks and Communities for lifelong competence develop models, methods and technologies for the creation, storage, use and exchange of networks of competence development programmes

Integration RTD activities Activities in this strand include: Requirements and Analysis of the Integrated System for the overall integration workflows of the Unified Process adopted by the project. Technical Design & Implementation of the Integrated System for the integration of both existing and newly created tools. Pilots using the Integrated System aimed at validating the project and its outcomes by performing three separate cycles of real-life pilot implementations in the areas of digital cinema, health work, water management and city-wide contexts.

Ongoing Activities Ongoing development at the level of Aspect and Integration RTD (tools provided as open source software) Delivery of the Alpha version PCM (Antelope) to the EU commission in May 2007 Release of Antelope to general public early or late summer 2007 Digital Cinema Pilot (imminent) and development of additional pilots Continued growth of associated partner network Delivery of training programs to teach users how to work with the infrastructure

Future Events for 2007 Open Workshop – Barcelona 18 – 22 June (exact date TBC) ePortfolio - Maastricht October 2007 PCM workshop EUCEN – Hanover November 2007

Stats EU IST–Technology Enhanced Learning Integrated Project 4 years: December 2005 – December 2009 Budget 13.8 million euro (8.8 EU contribution) 15 Partners from 9 European countries

References Griffiths, D. (2006) Sloep, P., and Kew, C. (2006) od/resource/view.php?id=98 od/resource/view.php?id=98 Maderveld, J (2006) TENCompetenceOEB.pdf TENCompetenceOEB.pdf

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