Supporting life-long competence development using the TENCompetence infrastructure: a first experiment

This paper describes an experiment to explore the effects of the TENCompetence infrastructure for supporting lifelong competence development which is now in development. This infrastructure provides structured, multi-leveled access to learning materials, based upon competences. People can follow their own learning path, supported by a listing of competences and their components, by competence development plans attached to competences and by the possibility to mark elements as complete. We expected the PCM to have an effect on (1) control of participants of their own learning, and (2) appreciation of their learning route, (3) of the learning resources, (4) of their competence development, and (5) of the possibilities of collaboration. In the experiment, 44 Bulgarian teachers followed a distance learning course on a specific teaching methodology for six weeks. Part of them used the TENCompetence infrastructure, part used an infrastructure which was similar, except for the characterizing ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: IJET
• Authors: Judith Schoonenboom, Henk Sligte, Ayman Moghnieh, Davinia Hernández Leo, Krassen Stefanov, Christian Glahn, Marcus Specht, Ruud Lemmers
• Keywords: Competence Development, IJET 2006, IJET 2008, Lifelong Competence Development, TENCompetence Infrastructure