| NETWORK NEWS |
| Sixth Edition June 2006 |
| EDITORIAL |
by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Johannes Wildt Dear eCompetence and eLearning actors, Welcome to the Sixth Edition of our European eCompetence newsletter. Finally we have published our eCompetence book "The Challenge of eCompetence in Academic Staff Development", which presents 24 contributions from all over Europe and even one contribution from South Africa. Next to conceptual backgrounds, the book focuses on institutional staff training measures and approaches to individual eCompetence development. We hope that the book contains interesting findings to all actors, which are involved in academic staff development and building support and infrastructure for eLearning in their universities. As the book is published under the Creative Commons licence, you are free to download all contributions from our website. The fourth eCompetence symposium has taken place in March at the University of Dortmund, embedded into an International Conference on Academic Staff Development. We have seen excellent presentations from eLearning experts, including Gilly Salmon from Leicester, Jan Elen and Wim Van Petegem from Leuven, Michael Kerres from Duisburg - Essen, Iain Mc Labhrainn from Galway, Hans Boon from Pretoria, and Dieter Euler from St. Gallen, to mention only a few. All presentations and a summary of all eCompetence sessions is also available at our website. Although we have analysed and learned a lot already on eCompetence, much remains to be done. In educational research, there is a continued strong interest in competence development and management, as well in as competence assessment methods. eCompetence combines educational questions on how competence can be developed with questions on technological innovation and its impact on educational institutions and structures. The research outcomes in our project can serve as basis for further and more fundamental follow-up investigations on this important topic in the European higher education landscape. We will present our reflections in a workshop at the EDEN 2006 conference in Vienna. The conference title, is by the way, "E-Competences for Life, Employment and Innovation", which underlines the relevance of our topic. Best regards,
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WHAT'S NEW ON THE EU[eComp]Int WEB SITE? by Dirk Schneckenberg, University of Dortmund 
My short presentation of new and continuing contents in the website starts with the new eCompetence book. The title is "The Challenge of eCompetence in Academic Staff Development". It is published under the Creative Commons Licence. For additional info on Creative Commons, please visit http://creativecommons.org/. All book chapters are accessible in our website section: http://www.ecompetence.info/index.php?id=93. We hope you find some interesting contributions and welcome any feedback on the articles. Please mail to dirk.schneckenberg@uni-dortmund.de for comments. Actually, we have some other interesting data collections and documents on eCompetence in our website. Christina has designed and published two eComp magazines. These magazine-style reports on eCompetence development measures at the University of Technology, Helsinki and the National University of Ireland, Galway are easy to read, but nonetheless they contain a bunch of useful information on the topic. They are downloadable in our news and events section at: http://www.ecompetence.info/index.php?id=110 Just have a look inside! And for the database evidence on eCompetence, which we have collected and stored, I would like to point again to our two big sections, which inform you broadly on measures taken in a number of European and International universities. These are the Effective Practice Database, which you can find at http://www.ecompetence.info/index.php?id=57, and the Link Database: http://www.ecompetence.info/index.php?id=94. Both databases are situated in our eCompetence resources section of the website, and we will continue to analyse and compare activity patterns within the given examples on eCompetence measures in universities. FOR MORE INFO CONTACT |
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