Competencies in Organizational E-Learning: Concepts and Tools

Miguel-Angel Sicilia (University of Alcalá, Spain)

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781599043432

EISBN13: 9781599043456

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-343-2

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Competencies in Organizational E-Learning: Concepts and Tools provides a comprehensive view of the way competencies can be used to drive organizational e-learning, including the main conceptual elements, competency gap analysis, advanced related computing topics, the application of semantic Web technologies, and the integration of competencies with current e-learning standards.

Competencies in Organizational E-Learning: Concepts and Tools is the first book to address competencies as a key observable workplace behavior, driving learning and knowledge dissemination processes inside organizations. This book works as a guide for implementing or improving competency-based approaches to e-learning.

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"Although they approach their subject from a variety of perspectives, the core issue addressed by the 16 papers presented here by Sicilia concerns the measurement of competencies in organizational learning technology and knowledge management systems."

– Book News Inc., August 2007

Miguel-Angel Sicilia is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Alcalá. He has a five year degree in computer science from the Pontifical University of Salamanca. He has worked at the same university as lecturer for some time, and he also worked for several companies in the IT sector till he joined Carlos III University as an assistant professor. He obtained a PhD in computer science from Carlos III University in 2003 and in 2008, a postgraduate degree in bioinformatics from the Open University of Catalonia. Since 2001, he has been a virtual tutor for the Open University of Catalonia. His current research interests include information systems, service science, metadata and ontologies, and in general applied computational techniques and machine learning. He has published more than thirty papers in international journals and served on the editorial boards or scientific committees of numerous international journals and conferences.

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