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| Date: | 2009-07-01: Wednesday 1st July; 10:00 to 16:00 |
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| Location: | Manchester Metropolitan University Business School |
| Report: | [1] |
Competence - however you define it and related terms - is a common thread linking learning (outcomes), assessment and evaluation (criteria), job and higher course requirements (skills, competencies), and personal abilities, which are often evidenced through e-portfolio tools. The quest for a common language across these domains has grown in intensity and urgency, and now there are many projects, including past and present JISC-funded and European-funded ones, that aim to research and develop this area. Several interoperability specifications and standards are awaiting a common model for competence, including XCRI for course pre-requisites and outcomes; LEAP2A for portfolio information; and the future standards taking European Learner Mobility beyond the current Europass. CETIS has now set up a team to address this area, and is well-placed to bring together UK stakeholders in focused working groups, while having the reputation to secure represention in European and international discussions.
It is too easy for individuals or teams to think up their own way of representing competence. Rather, we need a model that is simple enough to gain widespread agreement, and at the same time practical enough to cope with real requirements and to be used by real tools. As a first step to exploring practical possibilities, this (first) CETIS-arranged meeting on competences brings together both leading-edge requirements from an existing education domain, and leading tool developers diet pills who wish to service these requirements, to work towards a common model of competence frameworks to function with appropriate tools, which would benefit all stakeholders. We have initially chosen medical education as the domain, because it is relatively advanced in the use of competence frameworks, but the model should be generalisable to other domains.
The expectation is that the successful pattern followed by XCRI and LEAP2A can again be fruitful, and one outcome could be a specification that is both rooted in current practice (in course development, assessment and e-portfolio), and as easy to implement as it reasonably can be.
This being the first meeting in this area, by the end of the meeting we would like to get a sense of how the community wants to move forwards. Is there any agreement on coordinated actions by the stakeholders present? What role should diet pills CETIS play? And what messages can we pass on to JISC to help shape policy in this area?
The aim of this meeting was not just to hear about different ideas for managing competence information, but to start the process of evaluating different models of representing frameworks of competence that might be used by tools, and that might form the basis of an interoperability specification.
| 10:00 | arrive, and refreshments |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Introductions |
| 10:40 - 11:30 | Short presentations of requirements in the field of medical education |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | Refreshment break |
| 11:55 - 12:45 | Short presentations on the capabilities of relevant end-user tools dealing with competence information |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 15:00 | Themed group discussion reviewing or building ideas for practical shared frameworks |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Integration of discussions: actions to take forward, including agenda for CETIS conference, November 2009 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Refreshments and close |
We need to limit the presentations before lunch to
Unfortunately we don't have time for complete demonstrations of any tools, but links to demonstration sites are welcomed here.
After lunch, we will work in small groups, with each small group containing people with
Each group will be asked to sketch out a proposal for an interoperability specification or approach. We will then compare approaches...
Introduce yourselves to each other, mentioning the areas in which you have some knowledge:
Discuss and compare
Focus on
Try to produce a short document expressing
Any medium is fine: paper; e-mail; presentation slide; Google doc; etc.
These people presented at this meeting.
