News & Events of DEVELOP

This year’s OEB conference in Berlin was one of the largest with 2,200+ attendees, 100+ parallel sessions, and 73 exhibitors. The conference brings together a healthy mix of educators, researchers, government and industry to discuss the key changes in educational technology.

In a world of rapid global change, companies have to adopt regularly in order to survive and not to vanish due to their incapability to become resilient. In recent years, companies also have to fight over people. So talent attraction and retention has become the most crucial bet that companies have to win every single day.

The project member Mirjam Neelen reports on the EARLI special interest group (SIG) 27 conference. The conference deals with online and more objective measures of learning processes. The idea is that learning processes are very important to understand because learning is an on-going process leading to an outcome.

DEVELOP is participating at the Earli Sig 27 conference in Oulu, Finland, 29th November - 1st December. Mirjam Neelen will present a poster on "Supporting Career Development Through Transversal Competency Assessment".

Soft Skills like Communication, Negotiation and Time Management are important both for private and business life. They are prime examples of transversal competencies that aid career development and can be applied across the job roles employees face during their career.