Towards Auto-Generative Learning Objects for Industrial IT Services

Abstract

In eastern Europe, in the last few years the IT services industry has significantly grown due to the externalization of IT operations from western Europe and America: production plants, communications, satellites, etc. In this context the pressure on the eastern IT services labor market has increased. IT services companies employed students with no IT background and trained them in their in house academies in order to respond fast to their contractual obligations. The time frame to form IT operations specialists is very narrow so they need to think of new strategies to speedup their training. In this sense auto-generative learning objects as the second generation of learning objects are a potential solution since it allows autonomous learning anytime during the day, when queuing, in the subway or during school or job breaks. Learners are trained with automatically generated dynamic content, get automatic evaluation of their responses and receive dynamic feedback. Thus, they can exercise autonomously different learning situations benefiting from automatic evaluation.