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Developing Learner Profiles for European-wide Transparency Information Systems

Developing Learner Profiles for European-wide Transparency Information Systems. Ass. Prof. C. Sgouropoulou email: csgouro @ teiath . gr http://www. cs.teiath.gr. European Requirements.

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Developing Learner Profiles for European-wide Transparency Information Systems

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  1. Developing Learner Profiles forEuropean-wide Transparency Information Systems Ass. Prof. C. Sgouropoulou email: csgouro@teiath.gr http://www.cs.teiath.gr

  2. European Requirements • The EU should become “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”. • The achievement of this ambitious goal involves “not only a radical transformation of the European economy, but also a challenging programme for the modernization of social welfare and education systems”. European Council, Lisbon, March 2000

  3. European Requirements • Education and Training at European level involve • the development of the European Higher Education Area (the “Bologna process”), • the enhanced European co-operation in Vocational Education and Training (the “Copenhagen process”). • The Commission has taken initiatives to establish synergies between both processes for the design of national frameworks of qualifications and an overarching European Qualifications Framework (EQF) for Lifelong Learning, taking into account the work done in the Bologna and Copenhagen context.

  4. European Requirements • EQF aims: • Facilitate the comparability and compatibility of degrees and qualifications • Facilitate the recognition of degree, experimental, informal and non-formal learning • Ease mobility • Build the link between higher education and lifelong learning • Contribute in the improvement of the European cooperation with regards to quality assurance • Foster the social dimension • Provide more transparency for the labour market and for learners

  5. European Requirements • Tools for accomplishing EQF aims: • European Credit Transfer System • Europass: Single Framework for the transparency of qualifications and competences • Europass-CV, a curriculum vitae structure for the presentation of an individual’s qualifications and competences • Europass-Mobility, which records periods of learning attended by its holders in countries other than their own • Europass-Diploma Supplement, providing information on its holder’s educational achievements at higher education level • Europass-Language Portfolio, providing individuals with the opportunity to present their language skills. • Europass-Certificate Supplement, describing the competences and qualifications corresponding to a vocational training certificate

  6. Europass Diploma Supplement • The EuropassDiploma Supplement (EDS)is one of the five transparency tools that constitute Europass • It will be issued to graduates of higher education institutions along with their degree or diploma • It aspires to ensure that higher education qualifications are more easily understood, especially outside the country where they were awarded • The EDS will be issued by the higher education institution awarding the original diploma or degree(starting 2008 - obligatory for countries that have signed the Bologna decl.)

  7. The need: Interoperable systems • “The Europass framework and the related support services should rely upon a suitable information system, allowing to link in a coordinated way the completed documents and to make them available to their holders through the Internet” • The Europass information system is expected to facilitate submission and exchange of information among the interoperating parts, and shall be developed taking into account the opportunity of future developments, with particular reference to the integration of information services on job and learning opportunities European Commission – Decision on Europass (Dec.2004)

  8. The approach: LT Metadata Standards • Use of Learning Technology Standards and Specifications for the creation of an interoperability model of the DS information schema • Standardization efforts in the Learner Information field are oriented to the production of information models capable of adequately describing learner characteristics, and the provision of mechanisms for the exchange of information among diverse learning systems. • Currently the most dominant specifications related to the Learner Profile domain, are the IMS Learner Information Package (LIP) from the IMS Global Consortium and the IEEE Public And Private Information (PAPI), which have been undertaken by the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 36 Participant Information Working Group.

  9. The approach: LT Metadata Standards • European Initiatives based on IMS LIP • LIP • offers a data model that describes characteristics needed for the general purpose of recording and managing learning related history, goals and accomplishments; engaging the user in a learning experience; discovering learning opportunities • provides a means of exchange of this information among interoperable systems

  10. The approach: LT Metadata Standards

  11. TEI of Athens: The MEDiS project • MEDiS: An Interoperability Model for the European Diploma Supplement has so far focused on the: • Study of the IMS LIP specification • Definition of specific requirements for the DS representation, according to national transcripts • Creation of an application profile by mapping the DS schema to the IMS LIP information model and approaching the phase of the: • Production of an XML binding of the resulting model to be used as a technical specification for the design of a prototype DS information system

  12. Related Initiatives CEDEFOP: Online creation of European CV and Language Portfolio http://europass.cedefop.eu.int <?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="UTF-8"?> <europass:learnerinfoxmlns:europass="http://europass.cedefop.eu.int/Europass/V0.2" <docinfo> <issuedate>2006-06-19T09:36:11+03:00</issuedate> <xsdversion>V0.2</xsdversion> <comment>Automatically generated Europass CV </comment> </docinfo> <identification> <firstname></firstname>....

  13. Related Initiatives • Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) & Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) UK have created UK Learner Profile 1.0 including • UK higher education transcript to IMS LIP • UK Diploma Supplement LIP application profile • Towards UK Learner Profile 1.2 http://www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/20010801124300/viewGroup

  14. Related Initiatives • European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL) has produced French DS LIP application profile http://www.eife-l.org/projects/TELCERT/eds-network/applicationprofiles/ • TELCERT Technology Enhanced Learning: Conformance – European Requirements & Testing http://www.opengroup.org/telcert/ • European Diploma Supplement Network http://www.eife-l.org/projects/TELCERT/eds-network/

  15. References • CEN/ISSS WS-LT. CWA 14926: Guidelines for the production of learner information standards and specifications. Brussels, 2004. • IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc. IMS Learner Information Package specification http://www.imsglobal.org/profiles/ lipinfo01.html • IEEE Learning Technologies Standardization Committee. IEEE Public and Private Information Draft 8 specification http://www.edutool.com/papi • Decision No 2241/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a single Community framework for the transparency of qualifications and competences (Europass), December 2004 / Official Journal of the European Union, 2004.

  16. References • Report from the Education Council to the European Council: "The concrete future objectives of education and training systems", February 2001 / Council of the European Union, 2001 [online]. Available from Internet: http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/2010/doc/rep_fut_obj_en.pdf • Realising the European Higher Education Area: Communiqué of the Conference of Ministers responsible for Higher Education, September 2003/ Bologna Process, Berlin 2003 [online]. Available from Internet: http://www.bologna-berlin2003.de/pdf/ Communique1.pdf

  17. Thank you! Cleo Sgouropoulou (TEI Athens-EL) http://www.cs.teiath.gr

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