Competency Resources and Information

This page provides links to resources and information about competences. For more information on competences from JISC CETIS see also
 * The JISC CETIS Competences working group
 * The JISC CETIS Competences topic page
 * Concepts and Standardisation in Areas Relating to Competence - a JISC CETIS white paper by Simon Grant and Rowin Young.

IMS Learning Design
IMS Learning Design Level 3, Competency Based Learning. Refers to IMS RDCEO.

IMS RDCEO
IMS Reusable Definition of Competency or Educational Objective. Defines key contextually neutral characteristics of competences for sharing across learning systems. Further developed as IEEE RCD.

IEEE RCD
IMS Reusable Competency Definitions.

XCRI
The eXchanging Course-Related Information project. A key activity was the development of the XCRI Course Advertising Profile (XCRI-CAP) to support the sharing and searching of course information. Competence statements relate to both the definition of entry requirements for courses and intended learning outcomes.

European Learner Mobility
The forthcoming CEN Workshop Agreement on European Learner Mobility has web versions of the documents in preparation and in particular a supplement on Intended Learning Outcomes

eCOTOOL
Working on the development of an information model of the Europass Certificate Supplement and the structuring of competence definitions.

ICOPER
The ICOPER project has a useful set of deliverables. Among these,
 * D2.2 explains the Personal Achieved Learning Outcome (PALO) model

MedBiquitous
MedBiquitous has a competencies working group where their outputs are to be found.

TENCompetence
See the website of the TENCompetence foundation.

Projects utilising competence-related specifications
(From the JISC CETIS Project Database)
 * JISC Projects using Leap2A
 * JISC Projects using IMS RDCEO
 * JISC Projects using XCRI
 * JISC Projects using EUROPASS

These pages are coordinated by CETIS team working on their relevant private intranet page