Abstract
In order to stay competent and update in the fast changing landscape
of technological advances,
professionals nowadays are expected to continuously upgrade themselves
of professional
knowledge and expertise in their respective fields. Many professional
organizations stipulate
that their members should take part in a minimum number of hours or
training units of Continuous
Professional Development (CPD) activities in order to stay qualified
for their membership. The
requirements of CPD for modern day professionals who are very much
mobile and work within
tight schedules point to the need of an asynchronous learning environment
that provides a
learner-centered approach and offers learners greater flexibility
and choices. In this article we
argue that �Personalization Learning� (PL) that exploits the abundance
of information and elearning
materials on the Web can be harnessed effectively to serve the diversity
of CPD training
needs. Moreover, we specialize in the concept of PL to Personalized
CPD Learning and highlight
the emerging technologies that are relevant to the development of
personalized learning for
CPD. We further proposed an agent-based architectural and conceptual
framework for a
Personalized CPD Learning Portal (Personalized-CPD) which integrates
these technologies
to provide supportive functions for professionals to conduct CPD activities
in a personalized
manner.
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