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EmployID is a research project aiming at supporting public employment services and their employees in adapting to the changes to their world of work by facilitating the development of their professional identities.

MATEL 2014: Towards motivational design patterns for technology enhanced learning

Motivational Aspects are of particular importance when it comes to learning and identity development. However, there are only a few research results on systematic engineering processes for considering motivation as part of motivational design. To foster such research is the mission of the MATEL Workshop series for which the sixth edition has successfully taken place as part of ECTEL 2014 and I-KNOW 2014 in Graz, Austria. It has been organized as a joint activity of the projects EmployID, Learning Layers and MIRROR.

The focus of the workshop was on developing a pattern-based approach to capture the experiences that have been gathered in various contexts in a structured way. The workshop participants actively discussed along a hands-on session of developing a pattern how a structure and process for such patterns should look like. The results are summarized under http://matel14.professional-learning.eu, and participants have agreed to continue the activity within online meetings in the coming months.

EmployID is defining its agile project management methodology

With now almost five months after the start of the project and its "contextual investigation phase" in full swing, EmployID is preparing for adopting a more structured approach to its agile project management approach. While there are plenty of materials and experiences with agile project management and agile development for customer projects, little consideration has been given to the specific nature of multi-disciplinary, multi-national research projects. While Scrum as an agile project management methodology seems appropriate to address the challenges, its basic assumptions are not easy to meet in such a setting. Therefore we have started to adapt the methodology to large-scale research projects, also based on experiences that have been collected as part of earlier projects, such as the MATURE project.

EmployID at ICELW 2014/2

The EmployID Concept was presented last week at the ICELW 2014 Conference in New York City. The proceedings are now available: 

The conference is dedicated specifically to workplace learning and attracts delegates from all over the world. 

In our paper we address current issues PES organisations in Europe are facing and how we plan to offer facilitation support for their professional identity transformation phases. One focus of the paper is on the contextual exploration that is currently taking place in the project and how contextual challenges have to be considered for the implementation of learning facilitation processes.

Delegates presenting implementations of eLearning in other professional contexts, especially from traditional industries, encountered similar challenges.  

The presentation slides are now available at Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/barbarak/learning-innovation-in-public-employment-services

 

EmployID at ICELW 2014

The EmployID concept will be presented at the ICELW 2014 Conference.An abstract has been accepted and now a full paper version is under revision.The paper discusses the main concepts of professional identity transformation and facilitation of learning processes that are related to this process. In a first phase of contextual exploration the complexity of design challenges has started to reveal.

Digital Security: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust

The EU launched a 47 Mio. € project to review the EU Data Privacy and Security Policy: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal4/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/99-ds-01-2014.html. One of the topics to be researched is the way how to indicate to a citizen the risk he's assuming by consuming Internet Services. In the following article in CT 02-2015 Prof. Dr.

Kick-Off Meeting at Vienna

After already several months of amazing engagement, the project had its official kick-off on February 6/7 in Vienna.

All the partners have discussed intensely on 

  • the challenges of fast changing working and learning practices and identities in public employment services
  • the need for agility in providing learning to their employees
  • and the constraints of security and privacy considerations.

It has become obvious that supporting learning has fundamentally different requirements in terms of openness, networking and exchange with others than the need for security and privacy of operational administrative systems. These diverging requirements and ways how to satisfy both will be one of the important topics of the four years project.

The interdisciplinary and multinational team drafted an agenda for the first months, ranging from strategies to engage a diverse set of stakeholders to exploring the architectural and technical possibilities. 

Pre-Kickoff virtual meeting

Continuing with the same dedication and level of engagement, all EmployID partners meet today via Flashmeeting to coordinate the activities for the kick-off in February. These activities around MOOCs, involving associate partners and discussing joint activities, exploration of ideas and setting up a sustainable and effective collaborarion infrastructure give the project a headstart.

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