E-LEARNING FOR INNOVATION IN TEXTILE ENTERPRISES
E-LEARNING FOR INNOVATION IN TEXTILE ENTERPRISES

Summary/Abstract: The question if technology supports learning efficiency, could be answered by the following showcase: textile enterprises need to cope with innovation, rapid change and adaptation of their assets by means of modern ICT instruments. E-learning is a powerful instrument to reach decision-making staff for improving innovation within own enterprise. The data prepared for e-learning is called knowledge matrix for innovation. It contains the intangible assets of a textile enterprise by two dimensions: the horizontal dimension includes the intangible assets on current and envisaged assets and the vertical dimension includes categories and factors, such as: innovation strategy / culture, informational resources, training methodology, relationships portfolio, IP rights etc. These and similar intangible assets are going to be fostered by research providers in textiles. The Erasmus Plus – strategic partnership VET project – TexMatrix: “Matrix of knowledge for innovation and competitiveness in textile enterprises” has a duration of 2 years (2016-2018) and 5 European partners: INCDTP – Bucharest (coordinator), TecMinho – Portugal, Centrocot – Italy, University Maribor, Slovenia, Technical University “Gh. Asachi” Iasi. These five research providers in textiles are going to complete the following redline of the project: defining a knowledge matrix for textile enterprises, performing a benchmarking study accordingly to a related questionnaire, elaborating a guide with solutions based on the gap analysis of the benchmarking study and organizing blended courses based on the guide. Moreover, the 5 research providers in textiles will contribute with own innovation solutions for the textile enterprises. The TexMatrix project envisages the implementation of a Moodle e-learning tool with the following main functionalities: Hosting the benchmarking questionnaire regarding the Knowledge matrix for innovation for online completion by 50 textile enterprises; Hosting the Guide with solutions for innovation in e-learning format for further education and training of 95 young trainees. We would like to focus within this paper on the implementation of the benchmarking questionnaire on the Moodle e-learning tool. The knowledge matrix will be transformed in questions regarding the innovation capability of a textile enterprise: these questions will be configured as questionnaire activity with multiple answers in Moodle. The received answers will be statistically processed and graphs and charts will be provided with the relative position of each textile enterprise on regional, national and European level.

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