Use of mobile performance support system for acquiring E-business management skills

• Main Authors: Tokmakov, D., Mileva, N.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Business; e-bussines; Industries; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; mobile performance support systems; mobile training methodology; Performance evaluation; Training
• DOI: 10.1109/ICL.2012.6402156

We are living at the beginning of a new Era of "Knowledge Society" in which tremendous changes are undergoing in education. Ways of acquiring new knowledge have been strongly influenced by the ICT by which we are surrounding every day by almost every aspect of our live. The rapid grow of mobile devices has been dramatically changed the way we communicate and we get information and without no doubt has become an important driver of innovation in learning. Mobile computing is one of the fastest growing within the technology industry worldwide which make possible to envisage an audience for mobile learning content which is media rich, collaborative and always available to the user. The main objective of this paper is to describe the transfer of innovative mobile Performance Support system methodology to the area of ebusiness in Poland, Bulgaria and Spain and on its foundations to develop the E-business mobile training methodology (EMTM). The mPSS was designed, developed, evaluated and implemented within the frames of Leonardo development of innovation project which ended in 2010. mPSS presents m-learning as a form of performance support system for educational and training purposes and can be easily adopted to the needs of future and present managers of e-business. The paper will also describe the steps which the new Leonardo project for transfer of innovation has to perform to meet the project targets and to obtain project outcomes which will be transfer of innovative mPSS methodology, trainer's manual, pilot training program for 68 trainees and set of training materials as well multimedia content.