A Global Reflexion Portfolio-based Competence Development Process - Design for Lifelong Learning in Companies with a High Degree of Diversity

Ilona Grubliauskaite

2017

Abstract

Competence management in multi-national companies is a complex challenge. Business needs generate competence requirements which are imposed on the workforce. A conflict emerges between the imposed requirements with generated standardized learning offerings and a workforce with heterogeneous backgrounds and learning needs. Goal of the paper is the investigation of this conflict from a lifelong learning perspective of individual work process embedded learning. Core contributions of the paper are a study of work processes and a competence management process. For this purpose an extensive observation study was conducted, covering 800 hours of data collected from 50 participants over 100 days. A competence management process is proposed which builds on the creation of reflexion portfolios to analyze the distribution of a competence among different locations and target groups.

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Grubliauskaite I. (2017). A Global Reflexion Portfolio-based Competence Development Process - Design for Lifelong Learning in Companies with a High Degree of Diversity . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: LLL, ISBN 978-989-758-239-4, pages 671-682. DOI: 10.5220/0006388206710682


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@conference{lll17,
author={Ilona Grubliauskaite},
title={A Global Reflexion Portfolio-based Competence Development Process - Design for Lifelong Learning in Companies with a High Degree of Diversity},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: LLL,},
year={2017},
pages={671-682},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006388206710682},
isbn={978-989-758-239-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: LLL,
TI - A Global Reflexion Portfolio-based Competence Development Process - Design for Lifelong Learning in Companies with a High Degree of Diversity
SN - 978-989-758-239-4
AU - Grubliauskaite I.
PY - 2017
SP - 671
EP - 682
DO - 10.5220/0006388206710682