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How to search for competences?
The OpenScout Experience…
Jan M. Pawlowski
Berlin, 01.12.2010
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…Jyväskylä, Finland…
Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]
The team
Kati Clements
Philipp Holtkamp
Mirja Pulkkinen,
Ph.D.
Anicet Yalaho, Ph.D.
Denis Kozlov
Jan M. Pawlowski
Ki i S
Kirsi
Syynimaa
i
Marjo Halmiala
Henri Pirkkalainen
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Global Information Systems
Mission Statement
Creating and validating new solutions for Information Systems in a
global context - this includes the support of individuals and
organizations to improve competitiveness, performance, and mutual
understanding
Topics
Designing work and learning processes in globally distributed
organizations
Design & development methods for global information systems
Culture analysis and awareness
Support tools for knowledge intensive processes in global
organizations
i ti
ICT4D: ICT for development
E-Learning and knowledge management in global
organizations
OpenScout: Skill-based Scouting of
Open Management Content
Continuous learning in management …
Development of management skills essential
Growing need for learning materials
– Diverse topics, up-to-date, high-quality, inexpensive
– Easy to access, skill-specific, adaptable, re-usable
Open educational management content available, but
many usage barriers
… utilizing
tili i openly
l accessible
ibl learning
l
i materials
t i l
Easy-to-use web services to access open content
Support all phases of using open learning materials
Search
Validate
reusability
Re-use /
adapt
Validate
solution
Re-publish
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Key Issues
How to enable competence based learning
based on OER?
How to connect resources and competences?
How to enable competence-based search?
How to harmonize existing approaches?
– Taxonomies / vocabularies / folksonomies
– Competence
description
C
t
d
i ti
– “Other” Metadata
Key concepts
Competences:
– “a collection of skills, abilities, and
attitudes to solve a problem in a given
t t”
context.”
How to describe…
– Competences
– Problems
Co te t
– Context
Basis for our work
– IEEE RCD
– PALO
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Competence scheme
influence
Processes
Influence Factors
aim at
influence
solve
Competences
is part of
influence
is part of
Problems
Knowledge
is embedded in
Context
Competence Services
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Competence Taxonomy: Management
ISO – Open Scout
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Related to the ISO model
Where does my model fit:
– Basic understanding of competences
– Need to understand relations to
environment, resources, …
Where does my model not fit
– Overall
O
ll architecture
hit t
– Terminology
Example: Communication
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Challenges
Common understanding of competences
– Experts community
– Users
Missing descriptions
– Problems
– Context
Relation of contents <-> competences /
Updating existing resources
Competence services
Competence based architectures
Discussion
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