OpenScout competence description
Introduction
The OpenScout project strives for better facilitating continuous learning (i.e. lifelong learning) through accelerating the use, improvement and distribution of open educational resources in the field of management education and training, as well as exploiting the opportunities of web 2.0 communities to support such learning. For this purpose the project implements a skill- and competence-based search functionality for open educational resources in the field of business and management education.
General information
(see Example source guidance)
information to be gathered | details |
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Name / title of source/model and version if applicable | OpenScout Competence Description |
Stakeholder | Project participants of OpenScout |
URL of source or stakeholder | http://www.openscout.net/ |
Orientation (work, education, etc.) | Definition of competences for development of competence services. Usage as part of a competence taxonomy for search and retrieval. |
Explicit model or implicit model? | Explicit model (Information model) and competence taxonomy |
Can organisations have competence? | |
Number of people currently affected | |
Sectors covered | Education and training in business and management |
Groups of actual users | |
Significant use cases | See competence based services at http://learn.openscout.net |
Significant business cases | |
Sample materials | |
Key features influencing their uptake of InLOC outputs |
Features
(see the Features page or the separate pages for each feature)
N | Features | ? | notes |
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00 | More than one model | 0 | separate competency definition (SRCM would have provided the other model, but it was never completed) |
01 | Identifiers | 1 | every LOC has an ID in the portal |
02 | Hierarchy (internal) | 0 | |
03 | Internal relationships | 0 | |
04 | External relationships | ? | IEEE LOM elements |
05 | Conditionality / optionality | 0 | |
06 | Text syntax | 0 | |
07 | Structured identifiers | 0 | |
08 | Classification | 1 | of the business domain (2 levels) |
09 | Level attribution | 1 | resources given an EQF level |
10 | Level definition | 0 | |
11 | Context | 0 | (but in the wider conceptual model) |
12 | Evidence and assessment | 0 | (but in the wider conceptual model) |
13 | Extensions | 0 | |
14 | Profiles | 0 | |
15 | Adaptation | 0 | |
16 | Definition by example | 0 | some examples are provided |
17 | Learning resources | 1 | this is the focus of this model |
18 | Learner records | 0 | |
19 | Multilinguality | 1 | resources may have versions in several languages |
Further information
OpenScout provides a model for connecting resources and competences. The conceptual model is not used for complex competence descriptions but to classify existing resources.
The model provides
- competence definitions
- a conceptual model (covering what?)
- suggestions for competence services
- a competence taxonomy (how?)
For a model for competences, and an initial competence taxonomy, see the PDF documents:
Guidelines requirements
Clarify the fact that this kind of project deals properly only with the competence concept definition, and not the structure.