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Ass. Prof., Polytech Montpellier, University of Montpellier Coordinator of International Relations for MEA specialty COMPASS Project partner for UM
Learning Opportu- nities Online services Mobility Standards
Labor Market needs Skills and competences
Learning pathways
Quality browser for Learning Opportunities in Europe… … enriched with learning outcome competences Always up-to-date thanks to information harvesting
Offering on-line services
Universities, schools, educational establishments
to broadcast their learning offer to enhance and facilitate student mobility to enhance educational guidance
Students
to choose a university, a qualification program to facilitate mobility to build their own learning pathway to define their future job
Lifelong learners
to find suitable learning offers for professional update/upgrade to build their own learning pathway for personal development
Employment providers
to evaluate the competences of a qualification to define their required competences for a job
Education and training authorities, policy makers
to improve the quality and relevance of offered learning
to strengthen cross-border cooperation of HEIs in the definition of
to implement a sustainable infrastructure for all European HEIs
Development of European and international
Composing Lifelong Learning Opportunity Pathways through Standards-based Services
Invited talk:
Presentation of the project intellectual outputs
Demonstration of the standard-based technical tools
Interactive discussion and group work of the concepts of
Public testing of the tools and feedback questionnaire filling
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How can standardized learning opportunity descriptions serve the various user groups? What policy suggestions would encourage the implementation of
flexible learning
pathways by higher education institutions? How can online services support the dissemination and the utilization of LO and promote the use of flexible lifelong learning pathways within HEI providers and learners? How can standard information models enable Learning Opportunity providers to engage in the well- structured description of their offers?
Models
Tools and services
Strategies
Different institutional systems exist, but they are not
At some partner countries, national efforts are mostly
There is not a common (standard) metadata schema to describe
LO information do not include learning outcome and
Goal: Propose a new architecture for interoperable systems
Methodology and main steps: Identification of key stakeholders and their requirements Design of appropriate information model on the basis of existing
Development of a prototype technological system and services for
Original diagram by C. Duncan
Learning object/resource metadata Learning object repositories, OERs Learning design SCORM Social media collaborative environments Transcript record e-portfolio LOC definitions EML Learning opportunity metadata QTI VLEs MOOCs
Learning object/resource metadata Learning object repositories, OERs Learning design SCORM Social media collaborative environments Transcript record e-portfolio LOC definitions EML Learning opportunity metadata QTI VLEs MOOCs
Supports better matching between education and training provisions and labour market needs
Increases transparency of qualifications
Promotes mobility, employability, adaptability
Educational context: learning outcomes are expressed in
Labor context: competences are embedded in job profiles, job
Guidance context: information about learning outcomes is
Personal context: people communicate about learning outcomes
Employment Job Profiles Qualifications Learning Opportunities Learners
according to a specified system
learning objective
education level
approach to assessment
hierarchical relations
all its specific instances
awarded to a learner
reference to prerequisite for accessing the Learning Opportunity
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Models
Tools and services
Strategies
COMPASS works towards the development of:
created to represent the different user types useful in considering the goals, desires, and limitations of
to help guiding decisions about features, interactions, and
Software requirements is a communication problem Those who want software must communicate with those
Scenarii is a basis for communication and discussion
Source: Alex Cowan, http://www.alexandercowan.com/tutorial-personas-problem-scenarios-user-stories/
Scenarii support participatory design Participatory design
Empirical design
Head (metadata)
Body
Marko - Head of Study Program, TTU
Kadrin - Administrative staff at Office of International Relations, TTU
Daniel - PhD student
Marta - Engineer at NXP
Sonia - Computer Engineer IMEC, BE
Giorgio - QA unit, Rome University
Homer – Prof. of C. Eng., TEI-A
Juliet - International Relations, UM
Hans - Student, finished High School
Anna - Finished High School (ES)
Apo - Vocational Standard Office (EE)
Jane – Int. Relations Coordinator (FR)
Nicolas - 17 yo student (FR)
Michel – Nicolas’ father (FR)
Monique - Greek MoE, responsible for Ploigos system
Laura – Prof. of CS, Turin
Francesca - 18 yo (IT)
Albert - MoE Policy Maker, responsible for funding
Teo - MSc candidate in Greece
Gregory - HR Dpt. (CY)
Bernard – Director of Training and Education, UM
After COMPASS
Before COMPASS
a group of students and ask feedback
“Electronics Engineer in France” to find about: how it is recognized, employed, how studies are organized, how exams are graded, how courses are taught ...
for Belgium and Switzerland
websites in search of information such as courses list, ECTS, exams grading
Before COMPASS
as the head
study programme advises students for courses for their exchange studies at a foreign universities.
the student would like to study at other universities
studies
and course descriptions
available online and some iterations with the student are needed to refine information.
against the track record of the student
After COMPASS
the second step will be simplified significantly.
comparison and matching
the courses with will be easier.
the student to take an additional course (or two) or to replace one of the initial selections with a more suitable for the goal of the study programme.
Before COMPASS
Before COMPASS
After COMPASS
pathway through COMPASS!
contents (whether he will be interested
programs given by the platform, Nicolas will even manage to convince his father that he can spend a semester of studies in a foreign university, so his big problem with English will be solved!
Mobility scenario
Connection with industry
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Three activities related to testing Activity O3A1 “Development of Pilot Testing
Concluded and deliverable issued
Activity O3A3 “Internal evaluation of the online
Concluded and deliverable issued
Activity O3A4 “Public evaluation of the online
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Usability testing Security testing Compatibility testing Responsiveness testing Accessibility testing Upgradability testing …
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Usability testing Security testing Compatibility testing Responsiveness testing Accessibility testing Upgradability testing …
The core of usability is clarity A clear and usable design can be achieved through:
Distraction or confusion => more time, lost, dissatisfaction Our services and their interfaces should be easy and
Key to intuitive design is to make use of what users already
Tools: Questionnaires Three sessions targeting
Partners HEIs The general public
Between one session and the following
Partners had been required to manually upload
Digital systems and Digital design Embedded systems Programming and Algorithms Computer architecture VLSI testing Distributed programming Mobile communication
Tool: Dedicated online questionnaire
Information about the user Evaluation of the functionalities to browse and
Evaluation of the functionalities to interact with the
Evaluation of additional functionalities General feedback on the COMPASS Online
Outcomes: No difficulties reported in globally interacting
Fast and pleasant interaction
Difficulties and concerns on inserting new LOs
Broken links or misleading questions were reported Feedback already taken into account
Partners had been required to organize training
Teachers Students Coordinators for mobility Responsible for HEIs …
Supervised exploration of the COMPASS Online
Tool: Dedicated online questionnaire
Information about the user Evaluation of the functionalities to browse and
Evaluation of the functionalities to interact with the
Evaluation of additional functionalities General feedback on the COMPASS Online
Outcomes: Still additional concerns on inserting new LOs
Again improved and corrected
Additional features suggested for browsing LOs
New filters added (e.g., for countries) Adapt the content on the user’s profile (e.g., student
Photos of the testing events
Partners are organizing Multiplier Events for
Like the one you are attending now
Supervised exploration of the COMPASS Online
Work group
Unsupervised evaluation
Tool: Dedicated online questionnaire
Information about you General feedback on the COMPASS project Evaluation of the functionalities to browse and
Evaluation of the functionalities to interact with the
Evaluation of additional functionalities General feedback on the COMPASS Online
Tool: Dedicated online questionnaire
Tool: Dedicated online questionnaire
Tool: Dedicated online questionnaire Link: https://tinyurl.com/compass-me
Outcomes: To be defined
A deliverable will be issued after all the Multiplier
Any feedback you will give us is valuable to
Thank you!
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Under construction… Two MOOCs
One on standards One on the platform benefits and use
Types of material
Animated presentations Filmed testimonies Personas videos Interactive activities (MCQ…)
Innovat ate on educational
services Build learning
learning outcomes and competences for
strengthening learning
to employment
pathways Raise quality of education and training on an institutional, professional and individual level
Link: https://tinyurl.com/compass-event Thank you!