Skill oriented Training Activity as a Service

Abstract

In this paper, the authors address the problem of fast changing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) profession which hampers efficiency of ICT professionals and practitioners as well as businesses. For instance, ICT practitioners increasingly need support and training activitie to adapt their skills or to acquire new ones in order to deal with ICT technology changes. The authors attempt for that aim to provide a generic training Framework based on Intelligent Tutoring Systems' configuration and adaptation to ICT professionals and practitioners needs. In this framework, the Intelligent Tutoring System's components are e-skill oriented training services using corresponding resources all together deployed in the cloud accordingly to a Software as a Service model. More specifically, they proposed Framework adopts the European e-Competence Framework, the European Qualification Framework as well as the Instructional Management System portfolio standard.

Factors for the Management of Scarce Human Resources and Highly Skilled Employees in IT-Departments

“…Skills obsolescence is especially important in a sector that witness fast paced technological, domain, and process changes leading to rapid skills obsolescence, unless these skills are updated often (Bapna, Langer, Mehra, Gopal, & Gupta, 2012). In other words, a constant development of the software practitioner's knowledge is fundamental as highlighted by previous works on the field (Agarwal, Pande, & Ahuja, 2014;Khemaja & Mastour, 2014). Main assets in software industry are not servers, buildings or machines.…”