facets of curriculum modelling mike collett edrene conference den haag december 2012
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Facets of Curriculum ModellingMike Collett
EDRENE ConferenceDen Haag
December 2012
What?
curriculum– a race course (Latin - cursus) showing how
children grow into adults– a course: topics, levels, standards and objectives
often– a structured document– defines requirements– linked to qualifications and assessments
Why?
Why model a curriculum?
<put your own requirements here>
Why?
use parts in metadata for– resources and assessments– people
navigation– hierarchies– drop down list filters
modularise to share and reuse partsmap between curriculaadditional information in user interface
England National Curriculum
been through several cyclesOnline set of vocabularies
England National Curriculum
Not a single structureA single set of “tagging terms”Programmes of study (objectives)Schemes of workOther vocabularies provided:– structure– facets (at the time using related terms)– tagging rules, for example subject - key stage
England National Curriculum
Major revision with replacement 2008 Programmes of study and Schemes of work– only a few tagging terms added or removed– the main change was in objectives and work
schemes– new schemes were mapped to tagging terms
hence most legacy metadata still valid
STEM Portal
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/Bespoke CMS with SOLR for searchTagged with small selection of vocabularies– Subject– Key stage | Age range– Resource type– Content format– Publication date (year)– Publisher
Tags used for faceting
National Strategies
Professional development for UK professionalsOver 20,000 documentsRe-developed in 2008– dynamic content discovery and navigation by use of
metadata– navigation structure defined by a taxonomy, each
navigation point (or node) of which contained a query
Re-used many of the National Curriculum vocabsArchived site
National Strategies - Vocabularies
Stages of education – Phase (Early Years, Primary and Secondary), Key Stage, School YearCurriculum subject and subject specifiersRole or AudienceEducational topic – a dumping groundNavigation hierarchies for box navigation
Box Navigation
Faceted navigation
Work cycle
Where are the facets?
metadata propertiesas categories attached to curriculum items– automatic queries at nodes– simplify tagging
separate the management of vocabularies– multiple consuming services– quicker development– change management
thanks
Some links
[email protected]://www.schemeta.comhttp://kennisnet.lexaurus.nethttp://culturegrid.lexaurus.nethttp://k-int.com/products/lexaurusbankhttp://europeanschoolnet-vbe.lexaurus.net