News & Events of DEVELOP

In the paper "Community-Based Measures for Social Capital", which will be presented at the Complex Networks 2018 conference, the DEVELOP project partners at UOB and UWE propose a novel community-based model for measuring bonding and bridging social capital in a social network.

The DEVELOP project is researching how to apply privacy- and ethics-by-design to the development of the project's learning platform. Our objective is to make data privacy a key component of the learning environment, and to help balance the privacy interests of employees with the talent management desires of employers.

DEVELOP partners will be taking part in the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). Learn more about the conference and read the paper "Individual-level social capital in weighted and attributed social networks", which will be presented at the MSNDS 2018 workshop.

DEVELOP’s new blog post "Developing careers through transversal competencies" has been posted on EPALE, the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe. EPALE’s theme of the month was “Assessing adults’ skills”. DEVELOP’s innovative approach and techniques to measuring soft skills are presented in the blog post.

Most people will be familiar with online assessments, as they are widely used by companies seeking to screen, recruit, and develop their staff. But is this the only way we can take advantage of the benefits offered by online assessments?