Women are still underrepresented in engineering courses although some German universities offer separate women's engineering courses which include virtual STEM learning environments. To outline information about fundamental aspects relevant for virtual STEM learning, one has to reveal which similarities both genders in virtual learning show. Moreover, the question arises as to whether there are...

The acquisition of complex knowledge and competences raises difficult challenges for the supporting tools within the corporate environment, which digital storytelling presents a potential solution. Traditionally, a driving goal of digital storytelling is the generation of dramatic stories with human significance, but for learning purposes, the need for drama is complemented by the requirement o...

For competences development of learners and professionals, target competences and corresponding competence development opportunities have to be identified. Personal Recommender Systems (PRS) provide personal recommendations for learners aimed at finding and selecting learning activities that best match their needs. This article argues that a clear-cut description of the concept of ‘competence’ ...

—Nowadays the successful acquisition of competences is the base for the achievement of the professional skills and, consequently, the educational methodologies need to be reconsidered. This work describes a methodological procedure proposed to help educational experts to assess if the competences developed in a degree program are really acquired by the student. Due to the huge amount of informa...

In an effort to re-focus on their core competences, an increasing number of companies outsource parts of their IT services. In this context, based on Hamel and Prahalad’s definition of core competences, numerous theoretical models for identifying and analyzing core competences were developed. However, at present, due to the high complexity of outsourcing decisions, it is not clear which theoret...

Outlines the imperative of higher education organizations to remain in the forefront of strategic planning thinking. They are the breeding ground for innovative approaches to competitive and co-operative advantage in the commercial world. Attention is drawn to models of higher education organization which have been matched by similar strategic paradigms in business. The growing popularity of su...

This exploratory study engaged teams of elementary and middle school students in the collaborative design digital games. Game is theoretically examined this as a form knowledge-creating learning that characterized by efforts to advance shared object activity, i.e., game being designed. Using mixed methods, we how experienced project fostered connected learning, is, integration students’ persona...

At the University of Siegen we design within the research project “Informatics in secondary schools and e-learning to master the digital media upheaval” a contribution of informatics to foster media competences in the context of the Internet. Existing international curricula for informatics as well as information and communication technology (ICT) are analysed confining to the aspect of providi...

Cross-cultural knowledge management in the e-environment results from interactions with others from different cultures that require new understanding and interpretations. The authors find that few studies have been conducted to address the objective of identifying the competences that are needed to promote learning and information processing in the 21st century. The authors’ primary goal is to ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the prediction of autonomy support, psychological mediators and self-determined academic motivation on basic competences. A sample of 405 adolescent students aged between 12 and 16 was used to measure autonomy support, psychological needs, self-determined motivation and basic competences. The results supported the factorial structure of the scale and sho...