Joint Activities and Results of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Presentation at the General Assembly, No

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Joint Activities and Results of the Fraunhofer
GesellschaftPresentation at the General
Assembly, November 13, 2005, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter SpathHead of Fraunhofer
IAO, Stuttgart, Germany
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Involvement of FhG within Prolearn as WP-leader
WP1 Personalized Adaptive Learning (FhG-FIT)
Push forward research and implementation of
adaptive learning and assessment in open
environments at the workplace, corporate user
modelling approaches, new user interfaces for
data (metadata) visualization, etc.
WP7 Knowledge Work Management Learning
Arrangements (FhG-IAO)
Enhance awareness about the concept of knowledge
work management. Give recommendations on how to
get quicker into operational excellence in
learning at workplace and how to raise
performance of knowledge workers.
WP8 Virtual Competence Center (FhG-IAO)
To promote and set up an European-wide web based
professional learning community. To establish
information, communication and interaction
opportunities between research and economy.
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FhGs role as a partner in JPA-2

• Contribution to PROLEARN (from WP7)
• Introduction of the Knowledge Work Management
  (KWM) concept with its 4 facets- Managing
  knowledge-intensive companies- HR-strategies for
  knowledge workers- Management of knowledge
  resources and products- Alignment of knowledge
  work
• Integrated model KWM Learning Arrangements
• Impact to professional learning community
• Awareness for the need of holistic approaches to
  the design of learning and working environments
  in order to increase performance of knowledge
  workers

Various publications and presentations on
conferences on KWM in JPA-2
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Partner experts and affiliates/associates/corporat
es
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FhG PROLEARN Case study (FIT bureau42)
Development of an authoring tool and an adaptive
course player for personalized e-learning Overcom
e the gap between pedagogues and technicians by
considering the instructional requirements in the
design and implementation of the ALE platform.
The WINDS experience shows that teachers, even
without programming skills, can create web-based
adaptive courses and students can benefit from
the usage of these courses.
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PROLEARN Evolution
Emerging needs and opportunities in
JPA-3 Development of specified and integrated
learning and working environments for knowledge
workers Improvement in spreading excellence via
PROLEARN in the professional learning community.
E.g. Strengthen the Competence Centre as the main
industry meets research activity of PROLEARN by
active contributions of the PROLEARN partners to
show their expertise and outline their specific
needs (online and offline) Suggested changes to
PROLEARN activities and structures No changes
for the structure necessary but strengthening of
joint activities to reach this objectives e.g.
via joint target-oriented generation of project
proposals Synchronization and or bundling of
different spreading excellence activities in
PROLEARN
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PROLEARN Evolution - Our contributions - WP8 VCC

• Achievements in JPA-2
• Huge success in community building (gt38 are
  registered industry members!)
• Support and transfer unit for PROLEARN outreach
  to industry activities
• Objectives for JPA-3
• Enlarge and strengthen services in the VCC
• Continue offline activities ? PROFESSIONAL
  TRAINING FACTS 2006
• Contributions for JPA3
• Expert interview annotation service
• First draft business model for the competence
  centre
• Brokerage service between research and industry

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PROLEARN Evolution - Our contributions - WP7 KWM

• Achievements in JPA-2
• Thematic Workshop on KWM and organisational
  learning in Bucharest
• Questionnaire on activities and developments,
  based on the integrated model, applied in Romania
• Empirical study on antecedents of effective
  learning management (WUW/ZSI, included from WP 5)
• Objectives for JPA-3
• Enhance awareness about the challenges of
  Knowledge Work Management
• Strengthen focus on learning at workplace
• Give recommendations on how to raise
  knowledge-creation and performance of knowledge
  workers
• Contributions
• Recommendations and guidelines for KWM in
  Business, Research and Politics (responsible
  FhG-IAO).
• Report on user-clinic experiences. Procedural
  model on how to get quicker into operational
  excellence in learning at workplace for knowledge
  workers (responsible IMC).

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PROLEARN Evolution - WP1 Personalized Adaptive
Learning

• Achievements in JPA-2
• interoperability / privacy and data protection
  issues in corporate e-learning / requirements of
  professional learning.
• specification and prototyping of personalized
  workplace learning solutions / interfaces between
  adaptive solutions and corporate training
  systems.
• Objectives for JPA-3
• Interfacing adaptive solutions with corporate
  training systems. (Month 30)
• Process-based taxonomy for professional
  personalized learning. (Month 36)
• Integration of process-based taxonomy into
  adaptive solutions. (Month 42)
• Contributions
• FIT taxonomy integration

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Invitation

• PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FACTS 2005
• Learning at the workplace to strengthen the
  performance of companies
• International conference7th of December
  2005930 am to 500 pmFraunhofer IZS,
  Nobelstrasse 12, Stuttgart, Germany
• Registration fee 100