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ABSTRACT
In this paper, the authors address the problem of fast changing Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) profession which hampers effciency 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’ confguration 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 specifcally, they proposed Framework adopts the European e-Competence Framework,
the European Qualifcation Framework as well as the Instructional Management System portfolio standard.
Skill oriented Training
Activity as a Service:
An Approach based on the
e-Competence Framework to overcome
the Fast Changing IT Profession
Maha Khemaja, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
Taoufk Mastour, University of Kairouan, Kairouan, Tunisia
Keywords: Dynamic Adaptability, E-Competence Framework, E-Portfolio, E-Skill Based Training Activity,
ICT Enterprise Context, ICT Skills, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Ontology, Training Resource
as a Service
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, every business and modern com-
pany is continuously seeking to become more
and more competitive to be better positioned
within an open market with a rude concurrency.
To do so, it continuously works on enhancing
and improving its business processes and relies
more and more on ICT (Information and Com-
munication Technology) to operate its business
processes, products and services innovation
and provision.
Besides, it focuses on its Human Resources
development and continuously works on moti-
vating and encouraging them to stay, avoiding
consequently the brain drain phenomena.
In a faster trend, especially during these
last few decades, ICT companies including ICT
DOI: 10.4018/ijhcitp.2014100104