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InLOC: a competence structure standard to inject new motivation

for portfolios

Simon Grant, CETISat the ePIC conference, London

2013-06-09

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The paper abstract is about...

people using tools when they are motivated employment: the big motivator gap in e-portfolio use for practical recruitment InLOC – the new competence structure standard

“integrating learning outcomes and competences” and something that could be a virtuous cycle:

frameworks published with URIs in standard InLOC format tools are built to use common definitions and frameworks employers use InLOC tools for recruitment users use InLOC tools for job-seeking portfolios reawakened to showcase shortlisted individuals more motivation for InLOC frameworks and tools

What is InLOC?

a European expert project that finished earlier this year drawing on earlier work including “InteropAbility”

InLOC specifies a particular way of expressing any structure (often “framework”) of skills, competence, etc. an “information model” with standard formats that can be processed freely and easily by software

together with URIs for each part of the structure structures initially represented in XML also potentially in JSON and RDF specifications and other information available at

http://wiki.teria.no/display/inloc/Home

InLOC features

distinguishes structures and definitions structures: like frameworks, relating a set of … definitions: separate skills, knowledge items, competences definitions can occur in different structures structures can take any form, and be of any depth

clear and principled treatment of levels both defining levels and attributing levels

can easily represent multilingual information scope for all the most relevant educational metadata single structure for all relationships and compound

attributes with easy mapping to RDF (linked data)

e.g. the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF)

look at the PDF the structure is the framework as a whole the definitions are every piece of text setting out

something that people could know or do available from http://www.ecompetences.eu/ for an explanation of how to represent it in InLOC

http://purl.org/net/inloc/InLOC+explained+through+example the InLOC XML for the e-CF is available

from http://wiki.teria.no/display/inloc/XML http://wiki.teria.no/download/attachments/24315835/e-CF_V2.xml

But today's presentation is...

an start to illustrating the complex web of factors that seem to underlie the future success of InLOC

complex diagram, built up slowly shows a plausible analysis of the virtuous circle we'll walk along the main tracks of the diagram please come back to it if you are interested! right now...

What needs to be done

persuade authorities to publish frameworks as InLOC win the argument for policy and principle first

build tools to help authorities build InLOC structures get portfolio (and other) tools to use InLOC information get employers to use recruitment services that

use common terms and InLOC frameworks start with matching services delivering short lists link through to detailed portfolios as and when wanted

then we hope to sit back and watch as portfolio usage grows!

Thanks!

thanks for your attention I'm happy to advise or consider being involved in any

projects that could use InLOC, and can also recommend other colleagues

questions?

asimong@gmail.com@asimong