Competency related Data Management IEEE/LTSC/WG20 meeting ADL Co-Lab, Alexandria US Luk Vervenne Synergetics nv

Agenda Competencies as the “common currency 4 employability” Towards RICH Competency Profiles Framework < Model < Profile Evidence distillation The beauty of Standards is … Competency related data management

What’s in it for me? Internal and external employability User Profile < employability data < employabilityPortfolio Extension of IMS EP < user controlled portability Competenties, Evidence, experience, Distance2Work (time / km) LearningPreferences (self-study, group learning, reading, hearing) WorkTime (available for night work, part-time or full time)

Towards a Lifelong Employability Services Market 4 Contractual Flexibility Life-long Learning Modern Social Security Active Labour Market Policies Flexicurity Components Constructive Social Dialogue Adaptibility of People & Companies Lifelong Employability Services

What does this mean for competencies and Competency Related Data Management?

RCD FRAMEWORKMODELPROFILE QUALIFIERS Level Aging Weight Relevance … QUALIFIERS Level Aging Weight Relevance … Select and aggregate Select Relevant to Your model Artefact Person Process Learning objective Goal, outcome, opportunities Task Function, … Competency Profile relations Acyclic graph COMPETENCY PROFILE CONTEXT EVIDENCE Select Relevant to Your model Select Relevant to Your model 8 instantiate

LEARNING OUTCOME PERFORMANCE DATA PERFORMANCE DATA EVIDENCE DISTILLATION SELF- ASSESS MENT SELF- ASSESS MENT ASSESS- MENT 360° ‘RAW’ EVIDENCE SOURCE COACH OPINION COACH OPINION NORMALISING EVIDENCE CP Certificates CAM CONTEXT Ontology CONTEXT Ontology COMPETENCY EXPERTS REUSABLE EVIDENCE RECORDS REUSABLE EVIDENCE RECORDS RE REUSABLE NORMALISED EVIDENCE RECORDS NORMALISED EVIDENCE RECORDS Matching profiles Competencies are not the problem, evidence normalisaton is! RCD repository COMPETENCY RECORD

Context As The Domain Model DOMAIN MODEL Competency (RCD) Learning Unit TEST PROCESS

IMS RDCEO IMS RDCEO IEEE RCD + CP IEEE RCD + CP IEEE RCD IEEE RCD EVIDENCE CONTEXT ISO SC36 HR-XML Qualifiers Joint Liaison Group Competency Data Management Joint Liaison Group Competency Data Management CEN/ISSS LETSI SEMIC.EU The beauty of Standards…

The Broader Scope Standards on the move? HR-XML accepted the Qualifier list principle for its 3.0 version. We are currently working on the other aspects IEEE competency profile to be discussed in March 2009 IEEE meeting in Washington <takeup by HR-XML, Letsi, IMS, …? Global discussion on a Common Conceptual model for Competency Related Data management HR-XML – IMS announcement in IMS conference in Barcelona in May

Competency Related Building Blocks 1.RCDReusable Competency Definition 2.GUIDGlobal Unique Identifier (a URI) 3.RCD GUIDReusable Competency Definition GUID 4.QCDRefQualified Competency Definition Reference 5.CPCompetency Profile (aggregation/ profile of RCDs) 6.ER(single) Evidence Record 7.EDREvidence Distillation Request 8.CRER Competency Required Evidence Records 9.PCPPersonal Competency Profile 10.xCP Competency Profile for other ‘artefacts’ such as process, task, function, job, role, …

Reusable Competency Definition (RCD) Defines/describes the competency Not relationships

Competency Profile (CP) Profile of person/functions RCD (URI’s) Structure (relationships between RCDs)

Competency Profile Node (CPNODE) A sub-profile Qualified – Proficiency level (or fluency) May be referenced from other parts of the profile structure, or from outside the profile structure

Evidence Distillation Request (EDR) An assessment request – Generic – Target person or group (e.g, ass) – E.g, all new hires need to be assessed on awareness of best practices for personal security iCoper Paris WPL

Evidence Record (ER) a proof of competency particular person and particular RCD

Competency (Required Evidence) Record (CRER) Set of required evidence records For a particular RCD or CP of a person/function/… Evidence of a competency from more than one evidence records

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