Envilonmental changes and lifelong human resources development.

Labour Markets and Human Resources Development

Competence-related Metadata for Educational Resources that Support Lifelong Competence Development Programmes

In the context of the emerging paradigm of Lifelong Learning, competence-based learning is gradually attracting the attention of the Technology-Enhanced Learning community, since it appears to meet the 21 Century learning and training expectations of both individuals and organisations. On the other hand, the paradigm of Learning Objects as a way to organize, manage, offer and use digital learni...

Redesigning Library Human Resources: Integrating Human Resources Management and Organizational Development

The human resources (HR) function within organizations has expanded beyond administrative and operational roles to include more strategic responsibilities. This change is requiring HR practitioners to take on new types of responsibilities in the area of organizational development—responsibilities that include redesigning jobs and work, developing performance management systems, managing change,...

TENCompetence: Lifelong Learning and Competence Development

TENCompetence is an integrated project which will support individuals, groups and organisations in Europe in lifelong competence development by establishing the most appropriate technical and organizational infrastructure, using open-source, standards-based, sustainable and innovative technology. To achieve this, the project will conduct RTD activities to further develop and integrate models an...

Simulating Human Resources in Software Development Processes

In this paper, we discuss approaches related to the explicit modeling of human beings in software development processes. While in most older simulation models of software development processes, esp. those of the system dynamics type, humans are only represented as a labor pool, more recent models of the discrete-event simulation type require representations of individual humans. In that case, p...