Janssen, J., & Brouns, F. (2012, 25 juni). TRAILER e-Portfolio voor Informeel Leren. Presentation at the meeting ePortfolio in de Regio, Maastricht, Nederland.

Presentation available from OUNL repository http://hdl.handle.net/1820/4366

The current knowledge society requires its citizens to continuously maintain and update existing knowledge and competences and thus engage in lifelong learning. Acquiring key competences, such as digital, intercultural and communicative competences is crucial to keep up with the fast changing ways of society. As people need to combine their competence development with work and family life, they need flexibility in content and logistics. Consequently, informal learning and social learning in networks play an important role in this. However, it might be difficult to get their informally acquired competences recognized. In this paper we describe how an e-portfolio could assists learners in gathering, maintaining and organizing their informal learning and competences in order to show and share this with others and present how this is implemented in the TRAILER e-portfolio.

A pre-print is also available from OUNL repository http://hdl.handle.net/1820/5130

Brouns, F., Vogten, H., Janssen, J., & Finders, A. (2013). E-portfolios in lifelong learning. In F. J. García-Peñalvo (Ed.). Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM2013 (pp. 535-540). November, 14-15, 2013, Salamanca, Spain, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2536536.2536618.

M.A. Marques, M.C. Viegas, G. Alves, V. Zangrando, N. Galanis, F. Brouns, E. Waszkiewicz and F. Garcia-Peñalvo

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 European higher education schools. This tool developed through the European Commission founded 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. In higher education schools, this tool also allows students to have a better insight on their academic curricula and the key competences they need to develop further.

Paper presented at ICBL 2013 International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Blended Learning
Florianópolis (Brazil), 6 – 8 November 2013

Clara Viegas, Maria Marques, Gustavo Alves, Nikolas Galanis, Francisco Garcia-Peñalvo

According to recent studies, informal learning accounts for more than 75% of our continuous learning through life. However, the awareness of this learning, its benefits and its potential is still not very clear. In engineering contexts, informal learning could play an invaluable role helping students or employees to engage with peers and also with more experience colleagues, exchanging ideas and discussing problems. This work presents an initial set of results of the piloting phase of a project (TRAILER) where an innovative service based on Information & Communication Technologies was developed in order to aid the collection and visibility of informal learning. This set of results concerns engineering contexts (academic and business), from the learners’ perspective. The major idea that emerged from these piloting trials was that it represented a good way of collecting, recording and sharing informal learning that otherwise could easily be forgotten. Several benefits were reported between the two communities such as being helpful in managing competences and human resources within an institution.

Paper presented at CISPEE 2013 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education
Porto (Portugal), 31 October – 1 November 2013

M.A. Marques, M.C. Viegas, G. Alves, V. Zangrando, N. Galanis, J. Janssen, E. Waszkiewicz, M. Gonzalez and F. Garcia-Peñalvo

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.

Paper presented at EC-TEL 2013 Eighth European Conference On Technology Enhanced Learning Scaling Up Learning For Sustained Impact, Workshop on solutions that enhance informal learning recognition – WEILER
Paphos (Cyprus), 17 – 21 September 2013

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