Supporting Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises by Personal Learning Environments

Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 (Information Systems)

Prof. Dr. M. Jarke I5-FL-MMYY-1

Learning Layers

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Supporting Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises by Personal

Learning Environments Milos Kravcik, Katya Neulinger, Ralf Klamma

Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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ProS Workshop, UMAP, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7th, 2014

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Agenda

BOOST project

Functional requirements

Technical prototype

Conclusion and future work










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BOOST Project

Issue: SMEs have a decreasing participation in VET BOOST: Business perfOrmance imprOvement

through individual employee Skills Training – Leonardo da Vinci – Lifelong Learning Programme – http://www.boost-project.eu/ – Integrates outcomes from 2 projects:

– BeCome: methodology – ROLE: technology

– Focus: enterprises with <20 employees








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Learning Layers Functional Requirements

Basic Workflow

Identify critical business goals in the company Select employees to address them Support their learning Monitor the learning progress of the company and

of the employees











Roles & Data User Roles

Manager

– Business manager – Business advisor

Trainer – Training manager – Learning facilitator

Employee

Data Model

Business Goals – Project administration – Web development

Learning Indicators – Planning, reporting – Web design, information

architecture Learning Resources











Competence Management 1. Specification of relevant Business Goals (BGs – high-level

competences), their priorities and time scales 2. Assignment of Learning Indicators (LIs – concrete competences) to

each BG, considering also time scales 3. Assignment of Learning Resources (LRs – e.g. documents, widgets,

peers) to LIs 4. Assignment of relevant BGs and LIs to employees 5. Setting up target LI (proficiency) levels for relevant BGs for each

employee, considering time scales 6. Assessment of the start & current LI (proficiency) levels for the

employee 7. Monitoring the training progress in the company and also of each

employee (considering also time scales)











Learning Process Concrete requirements for learning are company specific

1. Community support – sharing experience, communication,

collaboration 2. Domain specific support – training (learning) and

assessment 3. Annotation (ranking) of learning resources assigned to LIs 4. Considering preferences (e.g. learning styles) of individuals










Learning Layers Technical Prototype

Manager Area











Trainer Area











Employee Area










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Conclusion & Future Work

Done:

– Identification of main requirements – Development of technical prototype

To do: – Evaluation of technical prototype – Update of technical prototype

(personalization & adaptation) – Testing in companies










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Demo

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Supporting Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises by Personal Learning Environments

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