: A new structural concept was developed for e-learning educational materials meant for improving innovation in textile field. The educational materials were composed of 35 new project solutions offered by five research providers in textiles. The project solutions resulted as need of the textile industry, identified by a SWOT analysis of a Benchmarking study with 64 enterprises on European level. The connections between the Opportunities from the SWOT analysis and the project solutions was included in a cluster table. The new e-learning concept was developed with Moodle resources and activities, in order to comply with the structure of the educational materials. Thus, within the logical approach, hyperlinks were provided between project solutions and the cluster table, while the cluster table Opportunities was linked to the SWOT analysis. Nonetheless, project solutions may be accessed in sequential approach, by Moodle activity Glossary. The attractive e-learning course was completed by three modules on innovation in Book resource format, multiple choice questions and Youtube videos with interviews of the project's research providers. The work on the educational materials and the new e-learning concept was developed within the Erasmus+ project TexMatrix - "Matrix of knowledge for innovation and competitiveness in textile enterprises" (2016-2018), having five experienced partners: INCDTP - Bucharest (coordinator), TecMinho - Portugal, Centrocot - Italy, University Maribor - Slovenia and Technical University Iasi. The Benchmarking questionnaire was leveraged by the management instrument of the Knowledge Matrix for Innovation, commonly prepared by the partners for textile enterprise's end-users. The project had an outstanding impact with 199 textile professionals and 137 young trainees prepared within multiplier events and blended courses. The English e-learning course may be accessed by Guests on www.advan2tex.eu/portal .
The competitiveness of the textile industry is given by the ability of the enterprises to implement innovation. The improvement of the innovation capacity in textile enterprises is supported by the Knowledge matrix for innovation (KMI), an economic instrument meant for the quantification of the intangible assets. The intangible assets of a company, such as training methodology, IP rights, client / suppliers portfolio etc, are going to be better structured by using the KMI. The Erasmus Plus strategic partnership project “Knowledge matrix for innovation and competitiveness in textile enterprises” has as main aim the implementation of the KMI. The project’s partners have defined in the first year the structure of the KMI, with Elements, Criteria and Factors. Based on this structure, an online questionnaire was configured on the Moodle e-learning instrument in all of the partners languages, meant for completion by textile enterprises. 64 enterprises on consortium level answered the questionnaire. The related Benchmarking Report was performed at European, national and enterprise level. The results present relevant data for the enterprises, in order to improve the knowledge inventory, eliminate redundant assets, improve exploitation of non-productive assets and bridge knowledge gaps. The benchmarking reports include the relative position of the textile enterprises with regard to the national average, the European average and the average built by the enterprises of the same size. These Open Educational Resources are going to be presented in e-learning format to the target group of young professionals and decision-making factors in textile enterprises and are available on the e-learning instrument at the URL addresses www.texmatrix.eu and www.advan2tex.eu/portal .
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.
Several enterprise management instruments are used to support innovation. The Knowledge Matrix for Innovation (KMI) quantifies intangible assets of an enterprise in order to keep an improved inventory, gap bridges and eliminate redundancies. The KMI was defined and implemented for textile enterprises within the Erasmus+ project TexMatrix, in order to respond to their innovation needs: the KMI was transformed to a Benchmarking questionnaire, a Benchmarking study was conducted with 64 European textile enterprises and Reports on European, national and individual enterprise level were created. The needs of the enterprises were drawn from a SWOT analysis of the European Benchmarking report: 35 project solutions provided by the consortium partners were assigned to six main Opportunities of SWOT analysis. These project solutions contain results in fields like: research, market and training. The solutions altogether with three educational modules for supporting innovation were implemented within an e-learning course in five European languages of the project’s partners: English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Slovenian. The Moodle e-learning course includes various resources (Book, Video) and activities (Quiz, Glossary, Chat and Forum).Training was performed for 199 textile professionals within 8 multiplier events and for 137 young students within 5 blended courses. Textile professionals expressed their interest in implementing some of the project solutions. All created Open Educational Resources are available with free access on the project’s e-learning platform: www.advan2tex.eu/portal/.
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