How to search for competences? The OpenScout Experience… Jan M. Pawlowski Berlin, 01.12.2010 Licensing: Creative Commons You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial. You mayy not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://www.slideshare.net/jan.pawlowski 1 …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 2 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 6 3 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 4 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 5 Competence Taxonomy: Management ISO – Open Scout 6 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 7 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 8