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- Enhancing informal learning recognition through TRAILER projectPublication . Conde-González, Miguel Ángel; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.; Zangrando, Valentina; García-Holgado, Alicia; Seoane-Pardo, António-M.; Alier, Marc; Galanis, Nikolas; Griffiths, David; Johnson, Mark; Janssen, José; Brouns, Francis; Vogten, Hubert; Finders, Anton; Sloep, Peter; Marques, Maria A.; Viegas, C.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Waszkiewicz, Elwira; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Minović, Miroslav; Milovanovic, MilosInternational Workshop on solutions that Enhance Informal LEarning Recognition – WEILER 2013
- Managing Informal Learning in professional contexts: the learner’s perspectivePublication . Marques, Maria A.; Viegas, C.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Zangrando, Valentina; Galanis, Nikolas; Janssen, José; Waszkiewicz, Elwira; Conde-González, Miguel Ángel; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.Informal Learning is present in everyone's life but its awareness only recently has been reported. The need to keep track of the knowledge acquired this way is increasing as its sources diversity also increases. This work presents the pilots trials on the use of a tool developed to help keeping track of the learners’ informal learning, within a number of companies spread out in three countries. This tool developed through the European Commission funded project TRAILER, is still under development, which will allow integrating the set of improving suggestions obtained from users during the piloting phase. The overall idea of managing one’s informal learning was well accepted and welcomed, which validated the emerging need for a tool with this purpose.
- A tool to aid institutions recognize their employees competences acquired by informal learningPublication . García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.; Zangrando, Valentina; García-Holgado, Alicia; Conde-González, Miguel Ángel; Seoane-Pardo, António-M.; Alier, Marc; Galanis, Nikolas; López, Jordi; Janssen, José; Brouns, Francis; Finders, Anton; Berlanga, Adriana; Sloep, Peter; Griffiths, David; Johnson, Mark; Waszkiewicz, Elwira; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Minović, Miroslav; Milovanovic, Milos; Marques, Maria A.; Viegas, C.; Alves, Gustavo R.People do not learn only in formal educational institutions, but also throughout their lives, from their experiences, conversations, observations of others, exploration of the Internet, meetings and conferences, and chance encounters etc. However this informal and non-formal learning can easily remain largely invisible, making it hard for peers and employers to recognize or act upon it. The TRAILER project aims to make this learning visible so that it can benefit both the individual and the organization. The proposed demonstration will show a software solution that (i) helps the learners to capture, organize and classify a wide range of ’informal’ learning taking place in their lives, and (ii) assists the organization in recognizing this learning and use it to help managing human resources (benefiting both parts). This software tool has recently been used in two phases of pilot studies, which have run in four different European countries.
- TRAILER – e-Portfolio for collecting and recognizing informal learning process and outcomesPublication . Mykowska, Aleksandra; Waszkiewicz, Elwira; Marques, Maria A.; Viegas, C.; Alves, Gustavo R.; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.; Zangrando, Valentina; Conde-González, Miguel Ángel; Brouns, Francis; Finders, Anton; Janssen, José; Galanis, Nikolas; Alier, Marc; Johnson, Mark; Griffiths, David; Minović, Miroslav; Milovanovic, MilosInformal learning is becoming more and more important: Nowadays people learn more this way, through the Internet, than in schools or normal trainings. But they don’t get any certificateswhich attest this fact. So they can't show the employer or teacher etc. that they have learned something. TRAILER project aim is to solve this problem by developing a special tool for managing of all competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences. Both from the perspective of the user and the perspective of an institution or a company. We’ll present the IT tool to show how people can make their informal learning outcomes visible. TRAILER helps users to gather all information about process and outcomes of their informal learning. Users can share this with friends, colleagues or their employees, teachers and so on. They can create an interactive e-portfolio which can be attached to their CV, cover letter or Knowledge Management system etc. After the presentation of the tool we will discuss possible areas and fields to use this tool. Also we would like to discuss all possible use of the tool by the participants and another needs in this area. Moreover we want to discuss other problems in informal learning process, ways to solve the problems and discuss other ideas of different IT tools which could help in informal learning process. During the discussion we’ll use an interactive respond system which can be used on mobile devices: it makes possible for participants to share their opinions individually before knowing another persons' opinion.
- Using the TRAILER tool for managing informal learning in academic and professional contexts: the learner perspectivePublication . Viegas, C.; Marques, Maria A.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Galanis, Nikolas; Brouns, Francis; Janssen, José; Waszkiewicz, Elwira; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Doradztwa, Dom Szkolen i; Aleksandra, Mykowska; Zangrando, Valentina; García-Holgado, Alicia; Conde-González, Miguel Ángel; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.Informal Learning plays an important role in everyone's life and yet we often are unaware of it. The need to keep track of the knowledge acquired through informal learning is increasing as its sources become increasingly diverse. This paper presents a study on a tool developed to help keeping track of learners' informal learning, both within academic and professional contexts, This tool, developed within the European Commission funded TRAILER project, will further integrate the improvements suggested by users during the piloting phase. The two studied contexts were similar regarding the importance and perception of Informal Learning, but differed concerning tool usage. The overall idea of managing one's informal learning was well accepted and welcomed, which validated the emerging need for a tool with this purpose.