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The paper presents a tool which can be used to prove the correlation between social learning and employability. The tool aims to facilitate adults’ leap toward a better professional life and gives them the opportunity to find meaningful professional e-communities, in which they can learn from their peers. In the same time, during learning within platform communities, users’ professional visibility is enhanced, as exceptional behavior within those communities is rewarded by recommending them to job recruiters who seek competent workers. The proposed learning instrument is highly suitable for today’s social and cultural values and is based on latest technologies: semantic Web, recommender agents, ontologies, and social network connectors.
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The work has been funded by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013 of the Ministry of European Funds through the Financial Agreement POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132397.
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Dascalu, MI., Tesila, B., Nedelcu, R.A. (2016). Enhancing Employability Through e-Learning Communities: From Myth to Reality. In: Li, Y., et al. State-of-the-Art and Future Directions of Smart Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-868-7_38
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