Career Development through E-Learning: The Importance of a Competence-Based Learning Approach

This paper stresses the need for a competence-based learning approach when it comes to career development with e-Iearning. When the goal of e-Iearning is to train people for the sake of their careers, one should not see these people as students who receive education (as we do in traditional learning approaches) but as employees who have to be prepared to perform. Of great importance here is the transfer of training. What is learned has to be transferred to the (future) workplace. For that reason, the competence-based learning approach is introduced. Competencies with associated tasks and practical or problem situations provide the basis for a curriculum, in our case, an e-Iearning curriculum. After further elaboration of this idea, we have emerged with a number of recommendations for the implementation of digital training materials