| 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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BEYOND THE PROJECT - FORESIGHT ON FURTHER eCOMPETENCE ACTIVITIES by Dirk Schneckenberg, University of Dortmund, Germany 
The European Commission has invited eLearning actors across Europe to participate in the EU eLearning 2006 Conference "Technology Enhanced Learning - Catalyst for Change and Innovation" which takes place at Helsinki. This key event is hosted by the the Dipoli Lifelong Learning Centre of Helsinki University and the Technology-enhanced Learning Unit of the European Commission has set up the focus and the programme of the conference. As you might know, we have submitted a large project proposal called EUReCOMP - European eCompetence Research Consportium, for a STREP (Specific Targeted Research Project) in the last TeL call in March 2005. As you know, this proposal, which has set a focus on organisational change management, did not succeed, mainly because a technological component has not been integrated to a sufficient degree. Now, there will be a prospective next TeL call for proposals, probably to be opened in December 2006. This would be an option for us to build upon and to improve the EUReCOMP proposal for a new submission in the next call. To remind you on status of the EUReCOMP proposal at the time of its submission, I have put the proposal online. You can download the proposal here: FP6-2004-IST_PartB_STREP_EUReCOMP We welcome any comments and ideas from your side to adequately modify the proposal, so that he might be better suited to the criteria set up in the TeL funding scheme. In addition, I have also included the summary list of our ideas for potential follow-up proposals which extend the eCompetence topic that we have presented and collected at the final Dortmund panel. Any comments and suggestions for cooperation in order to draft a joint follow-up proposal are welcome. Just send me an eMail or give me a phone call at the below given contact number. FOR MORE INFO CONTACT |
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