Panel Talk SKI28
Assessing Soft Skills? Examine Ideas with the European Commission
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomCharlottenburg II
How can we assess the ability to think critically, take initiative, solve problems and work collaboratively? Get ideas by learning about the EC supported projects GRASS and ENACT which investigate innovative teaching methodologies and ICT-driven assessment tools – and the MENTEP project which has developed a user-friendly IT tool for teachers to self-assess progress in ICT competence. A chance to debate on the advantages, challenges and implications to assess transversal skills will conclude the session.
Vladan Devedzic
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Vladan Devedzic is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He also used to teach several computer science courses at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, as well as at other higher-education establishments in Serbia.
His long-term professional objective is to bring close together ideas from the broad fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. His current professional and research interests include technology-enhanced learning (TEL), programming education, software engineering, and intelligent software systems.
Vladan Devedzic has participated in and/or coordinated a number of national projects, as well as a dozen of international projects. His most recent European project is GRASS (Grading Soft Skills). It focuses on representing soft skills of learners in a quantitative, measurable way, so that these skills can become the subject of formal validation and recognition.
Davide Marocco
Associate Professor (Reader), University of Plymouth, UK
Serious Games for the Assessment of Soft Skills: The Case of ENACT on Negotiation
Davide Marocco received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2004. He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) of Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Plymouth University, UK, and the coordinator of the local NVIDIA GPU Education Centre, where he teaches and promotes GPU computing within Universities in the UK in partnership with NVIDIA.
Davide's research interests are mainly focused on cognitive system and psychological modelling in mobile and humanoid robots, as well as evolutionary robotics models of behaviour and communication. His interests in AI and psychological modelling is currently focused on the application of such technologies in Education and Training with the coordination of the EU-LLP project "ENACT: Enhancing Negotiation skills through on-line Assessment of Competencies and interactive mobile Training".
Links
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/davide…
Anja Balanskat
Senior Analyst and Project Manager, EUN Partnership AISBL, Belgium
Anja Balanskat is a senior analyst in the area of policy making, educational innovation and research for ICT in eduation. For more than 10 years, she has managed e-learning education studies and projects and coordinates European Schoolnet's working group on Digital Competence. She was responsible for the coordination and drafting of a European wide study on 1:1 learning in 2012 on behalf of the IPTS and currently manages the Creative Classrooms Lab Project, a first EU project on policy experimentations of tablets in schools. She has extensive experience in qualitative research, implementing pilots in schools and was part of the team of the large scale quantitative study: Survey of Schools: ICT in education. In her work she also acted as an adviser to the European Commission’s ICT cluster and provided input to workshops organised by the OECD on their New Millennium Learner project, EUN’ Steering committee and international conferences. She publishes on a regular basis literature reviews, thematic reports, trend papers and policy briefs.
Previously, Anja advised the European Strategic Management of Universities (ESMU) in European Benchmarking in Higher Education.
Anja holds a Master Degree in Human Resources Development and European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium as well an Undergraduate Secondary Teacher Training Degree (5 years. German title: 1. Staatsexamen) from the Friedrich- Schiller- University of Jena, Germany.
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Brian Holmes
Director, European Commission EACEA, Belgium
Dr. Brian Holmes is the Director of the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA) in Brussels. The Agency is responsible for managing certain strands of the European Commission's programmes for Erasmus+, Creative Europe, Europe for Citizens and EU Aid Volunteers.
Brian has been working on education and training for many years at the European Commission. He has been involved with European policy for innovation and lifelong learning, supported by ICT, and was responsible for co-ordinating the EU's eLearning Programme.
Brian has an MBA from a Paris business school and has been a tutor with the UK’s Open University Business School, for the MBA module on Managing Knowledge. He holds a PhD on technology enhanced learning with the University of Lancaster in the UK.
Links
http://eacea.ec.europa.euhttp://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/index_en…
Moderator
Erik Ballhausen
Project Advisor, European Commission, Belgium