Leading innovation in technology assisted learning

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Leading innovation in technology assisted learning
Opening up the competency store
Dave Waller Operations Director
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Supporting Competency based learning and
development since 2000

• Extensive experience of competency definition
  consultancy and support (Retail Academy, NHS
  Diabetes Care)
• Provision of comprehensive competency analysis
  tools (Capability Matrix, NHS, Delta-Afrik, CIPD,
  local authorities)
• Supporting competency development through
  e-portfolios (ALPS, Foundation Degree in Retail,
  University of Leeds School of Medicine)
• Strong, ongoing relationship with a number of
  SSCs and NSAs (most notably the Nuclear and
  Process Industries Cogent, NSAPI and NSAN)
• Development of a robust platform for competency
  framework management (Multi-Port framework
  powered by .NET and SQLServer)

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Challenges emerging

• Increasing demand for integrated solutions
• Inconsistent structure, definition and
  publication of frameworks
• Wide ranging definition of competency
  frameworks including
• National Occupational Standards
• Skills frameworks
• Competency frameworks
• Assessment criteria
• Differing approaches within single institutions
• Varied commercial / business models when working
  with professional institutes and Sector Skills
  Councils

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The MyKnowledgeMap Multi-Port framework
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A review of the current approach

• Interoperability with other systems can often be
  problematic (especially with non-.NET
  applications)
• Different Multi-Port core functions are available
  in different ways (XML, SOAP, JSON, HTML)
• Some Multi-Port core functions are only available
  through other .NET ASPX pages
• A noticeable shift away from the monolithic
  application delivered by a single vendor
• Institutions want to use a variety of tools, each
  with their own strengths (VLEs, portfolios,
  Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc)

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How can Multi-Port be opened up?
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What can be done with this approach?
Competency frameworks loaded through web-services
Evidence loaded from Flickr using the open Flickr
API
Twitter API used to draw tweets as evidence
Drag-n-drop mapping of evidence against
competencies
RSS feeds bring evidence from blogs or other
sources
A custom PHP application hosted separately from
the core Multi-Port framework
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Moving forward

• Multi-Port continues to be opened up with more
  open web-services
• Robust competency management, storage and
  delivery functions are becoming available through
  the API
• Work continues to adopt open standards (LEAP2a,
  RDFa, and standardised web-service conventions)
• But, how should we open the competency functions
  to make them usable and interoperable?

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Leading innovation in technology assisted learning
Thank you
Dave Waller Operations Director MyKnowledgeMap
dave.waller_at_myknowledgemap.com http//www.myknowle
dgemap.com http//www.d13design.co.uk/competencys
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Dave Waller Operations Director MyKnowledgeMap
http//www.d13design.co.uk/competencystore