personalised learning

By building on recent advances in contextualized learning, these layers provide a meaningful learning context when people interact with people, digital and physical artefacts for their informal learning, thus making learning faster and more effective.

Building on mobile learning research, we situate learning into physical work places and practices to support situated, faster and more meaningful learning.

Learning Layers provide a shared conceptual foundation independent of the tools people use and the context they are in.

Learning Layers are based on a common light-weight, distributed infrastructure that allows for fast and flexible deployment in highly distributed and dynamic settings.

We apply these technologies in sectors that have been particularly hesitant to take up learning technologies, i.e. health care and building and construction.

Involving two representative and large-scale regional SME clusters allows us to involve end users in co-design of the system and later scale up the approach to more than 1,000 learners within 4 years.

By inviting a larger set of stakeholders to adapt and build on our solutions and through research in sustainable business training models, the project will generate significant impact by boosting the ability of regional innovation systems to adapt to change and thereby remain competitive, on the individual, organisational and regional level.

We demonstrate the impact in the two chosen sectors, but widen the scope to other sectors and regions towards the end of the project.

Pentru a analiza sfera de aplicare a acestui nou concept, ne-am axat pe domeniul voluntariatului, care ar câștiga enorm de pe urma unei astfel de colaborări. Astfel, am evaluat patru comunități reprezentative, atât în ceea ce privește practicile de autoînvățare (oferind în acest fel profesorilor universitari posibilitatea de a interveni), cât și cu privire la alte aspecte ale procesului de învățare. Concluzia la care am ajuns este că acestea constituie un nou domeniu de cercetare, care corespunde proiectului nostru de cercetare deschisă, adaptată nevoilor utilizatorilor. Prin urmare, am elaborat o serie de recomandări pentru implementarea acestui proiect, care poate crește foarte mult efectele pozitive ale resurselor educaționale deschise, încurajând instituțiile să dezvolte elaborarea de noi resurse educaționale deschise, care să răspundă nevoilor celor din afara mediului academic.

The provisional date of publication is November, 2012. For further information and to submit your article, please contact: jimena.marquez@elearningpapers.eu

Guest editor: Fabrizio Cardinali, C.E.O. (eXact learning solutions S.p.A.), Chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG)

Submissions are invited to explore and share experiences related to the integration of learning technologies into the professional sphere. Papers can be more specifically aimed at exploring the following themes:

• Competence-based learning and e-Learning
• Personalised and adaptive learning services
• Embedded learning and performance support
• Games and simulations supporting induction and learning at work
• Training in virtual worlds
• Collaboration systems and virtual meeting rooms in support of workplace learning
• Semantic Web convergence and interoperability
• Generating learning content from information sources and the Web
• Integrating Media and Learning Management for Mobile and Instant Learning
• Online Validation and Qualification (such as badges, e-portfolios, etc.)
• Computer and Internet Certificates
• Informal and Non-formal Learning

See the complete guidelines at: Instructions for writers