Exploiting the Full Potential of Digital Identity

Managing Digital Identity with the Universal CV — by Marc Van Coillie — last modified 30-04-2008 17:25

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Homo Discens – a New Scale of Lifelong Learning — by Stephan Graf — last modified 30-04-2008 17:29

A novel paradigm becomes manifest in this new learning culture: Homo Discens –the learning human being. We do not understand this term regarding to the person and related steps of development or other approaches focusing on the person as it already exists in literature. Of higher interest and the essential aspect of this extract is the conceptional figure of the Homo Discens in IT. Standardized schemata have been developed in the past to define attributes and values relating to a person and to manage them in IT systems, i.e. identity management systems. The focus of our research is to derive a new paradigm and an advanced definition of Homo Discens for lifelong learning. Therefore, we have to review current identity management systems and add substantial power to existing schemata.