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Attwell, Graham

• Symposium 2 - Changing modes of organization, technology and learning: open source software and content in education and training
• What is the significance of Open Source Software for the education and training community? by Graham Attwell, Knownet, UK :: (Symposium 2) Open Source Software and Open Content have particular relevance to the education and training sectors for a number of reasons:

Blázquez, Florentino

Participation in CVT in Portugal and Spain by Prof Eduardo Figueira, Prof Florentino Blázquez and Dr. Manuel Lucero :: (Symposium 1) The research analysed the factors associated with participation in continuing training activities of technicians employed in Agro-food industries and in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Portugal, and in the building industry and in ICT in Extremadura, Spain.

Boreham, Nicholas

• Symposium 5: "Work Process Knowledge in European Vocational Education and Training Research" by Prof. Nicholas Boreham :: The concept of work process knowledge developed out of European research into the competence requirements of modernized workplaces.
• Collective competence and work process knowledge by Nicholas Boreham, Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK :: (Symposium 5) Work is a complex process which includes both individual and collective forms of activity.

Brown, Alan

Symposium 1 - Technical workers' participation in Continuing Vocational Education Training and Learning by Dr. Alan Brown, UK :: The upskilling of technical workers is vital for companies in Europe striving to maintain or improve their competitive position.

Dehnbostel, Peter

Combining formal and non-formal learning as a challenge for the development of vocational training concepts in the ICT sector by Prof. Peter Dehnbostel and Ms Julia Gillen :: (Symposium 7) The paper is based on the work of three parallel projects that have studied the theme “combination of formal and non-formal learning” with a specific attention on the ICT sector and ICT-related occupations:

Deitmer, Ludger

• Regional VET in Germany - Phantasy or Reality? by Dr. Ludger Deitmer, ITB :: (Symposium 6) The importance of regions to a more innovative development of the VET system in Germany based on recent research and practises is examined.
• Symposium 6: Policy Research in VET

Dillon, Brian

Researching complexity - what are the variables in evaluating e-learning by Brian Dillon, Nexus, Ireland :: (Symposium 3) The Leonardo Eval3 project developed a new taxonomy for evaluating e-learning.

Elferink, Raymond

Organisation and Management Issues, Sustainability and Support and Infrastructural needs for OSS. by Raymond Elferink, Raycom, Netherlands :: (Symposium 2) Open Source Software (OSS) and Open Content (OC) bring with it a whole new range of organisational and management issues for both users and software developers.

Evans, Karen

Facilitating learning success and contributing to social inclusion through recognition and self-evaluation of personal competencies: lessons from UK.

Figueira, Eduardo

Participation in CVT in Portugal and Spain by Prof Eduardo Figueira, Prof Florentino Blázquez and Dr. Manuel Lucero :: (Symposium 1) The research analysed the factors associated with participation in continuing training activities of technicians employed in Agro-food industries and in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Portugal, and in the building industry and in ICT in Extremadura, Spain.

Gam, Suzette

Living with change by Suzette Gam & Dr. Hanna Shapira :: (Symposium 6) In June 2003 the Act on Vocational Education and Training was revised (legislation 448- June 2003- “Simplification and Flexibility”).

Gillen, Julia

Combining formal and non-formal learning as a challenge for the development of vocational training concepts in the ICT sector by Prof. Peter Dehnbostel and Ms Julia Gillen :: (Symposium 7) The paper is based on the work of three parallel projects that have studied the theme “combination of formal and non-formal learning” with a specific attention on the ICT sector and ICT-related occupations:

Grollmann, Philipp

• CVT in Bremen's ICT sector - Learning and Working between hype and reality
• Learning while working in the aerospace industry in England and Germany by Mr. Philipp Grollmann and Dr. Roland Tutschner, Germany, and Dr. Alan Brown, England :: (Symposium 1) This two country comparison will draw on data gathered within the English and the German studies within the aeronautics sector.

Heidegger, Gerald

• General socio-cultural conditions for Re-Integration initiatives
• Symposium 4 - Policies, Contexts, perspectives on the problem of social exclusion in Europe by Gerald Heidegger :: The task of re-integrating people at risk of dropping out of VET or the labour market has to be viewed from two viewpoints

Heikkinen, Anja

The trans-national reflection and development method (TRDM) in promotion of inclusive education by Anja Heikkinen, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Education :: (Symposium 4) Evaluation plays a crucial role in the attempts to develop European level criteria for reforms in education (e.g. Memorandum on LLL, Copenhagen declaration on vocational education).

Hoeve, Aimée

Learning routines in innovation processes by Aimée Hoeve & Loek Nieuwenhuis, Stoas Research, The Netherlands :: (Symposium 5) Based on a case study of an industrial bakery, this paper focuses on the relation between the innovation strategies of enterprises and learning activities on the shop floor within communities of practice.

Hughes, Jenny

New tools and instruments for the evaluation of e-learning by Jenny Hughes, CRED, UK :: (Symposium 3) This paper reviews some of the earlier tools and instruments that were available for the evaluation of e-learning and discusses their limitations and operational problems and the gap in the market which was the genesis of the Eval 3 project.Symposium 3 - "Explorations in the Evaluation of E-learning" by Jenny Hughes, CRED, UK :: The development of e-learning products and the provision of e-learning opportunities is the most rapidly expanding area of education and training.

Kämäräinen, Pekka

• Between professionalisation and flexibilisation - Reflections on the strategic implications of the theme ‘combining formal and non-formal learning' for the development of VET by Mr Pekka Kämäräinen :: (Symposium 7) The paper provides a bridging analysis that links the more specific contributions to the theme “combining formal and non-formal learning” (that focus on ICT-related occupations and on the ICT sector) to more general challenges on the development of VET systems.
• Symposium 7 - Combining formal and non-formal learning in ICT and in vocational education and training (VET) by Pekka Kamarainen :: In the recent years the emergence of ICT-related occupations has been experienced as a challenge for the development of vocational education and training (VET) and of higher education (HE).

Kaminioti, Olympia

Participation in training of technical workers in Greece by Dr Olympia Kaminioti and Prof Nikitas Patinotis, University of Patras, Greece :: (Symposium 1) While participation in education has received considerable attention in research in Greece, training participation has not been studied extensively.

Kersh, Natasha

Facilitating learning success and contributing to social inclusion through recognition and self-evaluation of personal competencies: lessons from UK.

Krüger, Karsten

Work process knowledge in a research network. Relations to theories in use and organizational learning by Karsten Krüger, Foundation CIREM, Barcelone, Spain :: (Symposium 5) Work process knowledge is constituted by experience as well by theoretical knowledge.

Lucero, Manuel

Participation in CVT in Portugal and Spain by Prof Eduardo Figueira, Prof Florentino Blázquez and Dr. Manuel Lucero :: (Symposium 1) The research analysed the factors associated with participation in continuing training activities of technicians employed in Agro-food industries and in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Portugal, and in the building industry and in ICT in Extremadura, Spain.

Niemeyer, Beatrix

Collaboration Across Professional Paradigms in Practice by Beatrix Niemeyer, University of Flensburg, biat Berufsbildungsinstitut Arbeit und Technik :: (Symposium 4) As a comparably young but still expanding field of educational practice re-integration schemes support disadvantaged young persons in their transition from school to vocational education and training in almost every European country.

Nieuwenhuis, Loek

• The evolution of VET institutions: a Dutch case by Dr. Loek F.M. Nieuwenhuis & ir. Hester Smulders :: (Symposium 6) To change the VET-system each country has its own approach. To study the changes in VET it is important to have insight in the governance of change.
• Learning routines in innovation processes by Aimée Hoeve & Loek Nieuwenhuis, Stoas Research, The Netherlands :: (Symposium 5) Based on a case study of an industrial bakery, this paper focuses on the relation between the innovation strategies of enterprises and learning activities on the shop floor within communities of practice.

Pationiotis, Nikitas

• Participation in training of technical workers in Greece by Dr Olympia Kaminioti and Prof Nikitas Patinotis, University of Patras, Greece :: (Symposium 1) While participation in education has received considerable attention in research in Greece, training participation has not been studied extensively.
• From the creation to the success and from there to the abolition. by Prof. Nikitas Pationiotis, University of Patras :: (Symposium 6) The decade of 1980 was marked in Greece by a great political breakthrough.

Petersen, Wiebke

The relation of the “TRDM“ and criteria for situated learning in „Learning Communities Centred on practice” (LCPs) by Wiebke Petersen, University of Flensburg, biat Berufsbildungsinstitut Arbeit und Technik :: (Symposium 4) The Transnational Reflection and Development Method (TRDM) encompasses a whole range of aspects which practioners should reflect upon in order to further develop their courses on the meso, macro and micro level.

Pilv, Mikhel

Open Content: a new model for curriculum and content development in education and training? by Mikhel Pilv, MIKSIKE, Estonia :: (Symposium 2) Education around the globe is undergoing dramatic changes - from "schoolhouse based" models to various forms of "network based" education.

Rogalski, Janine

The place and role of singularity in the analysis and development of work process knowledge: Incident and episodic knowledge in individual, collective and organizational learning by Janine Rogalski, Laboratoire Cognition et Acivités Finalisées, CNRS, Université Paris 8, France :: (Symposium 5) After reviewing the relationship between operators' competence and work process knowledge (Rogalski, 2003), incidents are presented as occurrences of types of professional situation.

Rubens, Wilfried

The evaluation of e-learning - what can we learn from the existing literature and research by Wilfried Rubens, University of Utrecht, Netherlands :: (Symposium 3) The Leonardo Eval3 project undertook an initial analysis of web-based literature of American, European and Australian e-learning evaluation reports in English, French and German.

Scheuermann, Friedrich

New models for the evaluation of e-learning by Friedrich Scheuermann, - Institut für Zukunftsforschung, Austria :: (Symposium 3) Present models for the evaluation of e-learning suffer from being over simplistic and from - consciously or unconsciously - editing out many of the variables.

Shapira, Hanna

Living with change by Suzette Gam & Dr. Hanna Shapira :: (Symposium 6) In June 2003 the Act on Vocational Education and Training was revised (legislation 448- June 2003- “Simplification and Flexibility”).

Smulders, Hester

The evolution of VET institutions: a Dutch case by Dr. Loek F.M. Nieuwenhuis & ir. Hester Smulders :: (Symposium 6) To change the VET-system each country has its own approach. To study the changes in VET it is important to have insight in the governance of change.

Toedt, Alexandra

Assessing the quality of Open Source Software - issues and analysis. by Alexandra Toedt, University of Koeln, Germany :: (Symposium 2) The European JOIN Project provide consultancy and support for organizations / institutions that want to employ open source Learning Management Systems.

Tomassini, Massimo

Learning at work in the radio, TV and software production sectors in Rome by Dr Massimo Tomassini, ISFOL, Rome, Italy :: (Symposium 1) Evidence collected in the Radio, TV and software production sectors show how deep is the divide between the continuous learning needed in fast changing productive processes and most of the formal education and training interventions available from institutions.

Tutschner, Roland

• CVT in Bremen's ICT sector - Learning and Working between hype and reality
• Learning while working in the aerospace industry in England and Germany by Mr. Philipp Grollmann and Dr. Roland Tutschner, Germany, and Dr. Alan Brown, England :: (Symposium 1) This two country comparison will draw on data gathered within the English and the German studies within the aeronautics sector.