News & Events of DEVELOP

In our previous articles, we highlighted the benefits of social technologies adoption in the “Enterprise 2.0” era and discussed the potentials that workplace social interactions data has to offer as a result of social technologies. In this article, we look into the benefits of social capital from employee perspective and discuss an integrative model of social capital sources, definitions, measures and values.

This article shares the impressions from the Learning Tech Ireland 2017 conference, disscusses the central topics of Impact Led Innovation, and summarizes experience of the DEVELOP project in Design Thinking and user testing.

Personality assessment is one of the assessment types that employees can complete using the DEVELOP Platform. In this article, we explain how the indirect measurement of behaviour through personality assessment can contribute to gaining insight in an individual’s competency profile.

The DEVELOP PLE is an online software tool which provides integrated services to support a person’s lifelong career development. The environment offers services such as the assessment of transversal competencies, the analysis of social capital based on an employee’s virtual social network, career path propositions and related learning activities. Personalised visualisations of potential career paths inform and guide learners towards realistic and attainable careers.

A ‘user-friendly’ software interface is a basic requirement from buyers and end users. As simple as it sounds, achieving this requires continuous iteration and refinement. This article reports on the latest user tests conducted by the DEVELOP project with its pilot users, in order to ensure these needs are being met.