Competency Acquisition in Applied Knowledge Engineering An Approach based on Learning from Errors

摘要

The ability to model business knowledge is one of the core competences in the discipline of Information Systems. In addition, the modeling of business processes and structures has found wide acceptance in study programs for economic sciences. In addition to the knowledge of modeling paradigms, notations and tools, an effective acquisition of skills in this area also requires a deeper understanding of a professional domain, preferably from the point of view of a service provider or producer. Exercises that only rely on the analysis of existing business models or on the implementation of purely textual descriptions are not sufficient to establish a deeper understanding of the subject as well as an effective competence acquisition. The paper aims to show how a didactic concept, which takes up existing domain knowledge and explicitly focuses on a positive error culture, contributes significantly to the acquisition of competence in knowledge engineering by students.