Towards a Human Resource Development Ontology for Combining Competence Management and Technology-Enhanced Workplace Learning

Andreas Schmidt, Christine Kunzmann:
Towards a Human Resource Development Ontology for Combining Competence Management and Technology-Enhanced Workplace Learning
In: Proceedings of OntoContent 2006 (in conjunction with OTM Federated Conferences 2006), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4278, 2006, pp. 1078-1087
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Abstract: Competencies as abstractions of work-relevant human behaviour have emerged as a promising concept for making human skills, knowledge and abilities manageable and addressable. On the organizational level, competence management uses competencies for integrating the goal-oriented shaping of human assets into management practice. On the operational and technical level, technologyenhanced workplace learning uses competencies for fostering learning activities of individual employees. It should be obvious that these two perspectives belong together, but in practice, a common conceptualization of the domain is needed. In this paper, we want to present such a reference ontology that builds on existing approaches and experiences from two case studies.