Competency related Data Management

IEEE/LTSC/WG20 meetingADL Co-Lab, Alexandria US

Luk VervenneSynergetics nv

Agenda

• Competencies as the “common currency 4 employability”

• Towards RICH Competency Profiles

• Framework < Model < Profile

• Evidence distillation

• The beauty of Standards is …

• Competency related data management

What’s in it for me?• Internal and external employability

• User Profile < employability data < employabilityPortfolio• Extension of IMS EP < user controlled portability

• Competenties, Evidence, experience, • Distance2Work (time / km)• LearningPreferences (self-study, group learning, reading, hearing)• WorkTime (available for night work, part-time or full time)

Towards a Lifelong Employability Services Market

4

Contractual Flexibility

Life-long Learning

Modern Social Security

Active LabourMarket Policies

Flexicurity Components

Constructive Social Dialogue

Adaptibility of People & Companies

Lifelong Employability Services

What does this mean for competencies

and

Competency Related Data Management?

RCD

FRAMEWORK MODEL PROFILE

QUALIFIERSLevelAging

WeightRelevance

…

Select and aggregate

SelectRelevant to Your model

ArtefactPersonProcessLearning objectiveGoal, outcome, opportunitiesTaskFunction, …

Competency Profile

relations

Acyclic graph1

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3

4

5

6

7

COMPETENCY PROFILE

CONTEXT

EVIDENCE

SelectRelevant to Your model

SelectRelevant to Your model

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instantiate

LEARNING OUTCOME

PERFORMANCE DATA

EVIDENCE DISTILLATION

SELF-ASSESS MENT

ASSESS- MENT

360°

‘RAW’EVIDENCE SOURCE

COACHOPINION

NORMALISING EVIDENCE

CP

Certificates

CAM

CONTEXTOntology

COMPETENCY EXPERTS

REUSABLEEVIDENCE RECORDSREREUSABLENORMALISED

EVIDENCE RECORDS

Matching profiles

Competencies are not the problem, evidence normalisaton is!

RCD repository

COMPETENCY RECORD

Context As The Domain Model

DOMAIN MODEL

Competency (RCD)

Learning Unit

TEST

PROCESS

IMS RDCEO

IEEERCD + CP

IEEERCD EVIDENCECONTEXT

ISO SC36

HR-XML

Qualifiers

Joint Liaison GroupCompetency

Data Management

CEN/ISSS

LETSISEMIC.EU

The beauty of Standards…

The Broader Scope

Standards on the move? • HR-XML accepted the Qualifier list principle for its 3.0 version.

• We are currently working on the other aspects

• IEEE competency profile to be discussed in March 2009 IEEE meeting in

Washington <takeup by HR-XML, Letsi, IMS, …?

• Global discussion on a Common Conceptual model for Competency Related

Data management

• HR-XML – IMS announcement in IMS conference in Barcelona in May

Competency Related Building Blocks

1. RCD Reusable Competency Definition2. GUID Global Unique Identifier (a URI)3. RCD GUID Reusable Competency Definition GUID4. QCDRef Qualified Competency Definition Reference5. CP Competency Profile (aggregation/ profile of

RCDs)6. ER (single) Evidence Record7. EDR Evidence Distillation Request8. CRER Competency Required Evidence Records9. PCP Personal Competency Profile10. xCP Competency Profile for other ‘artefacts’ such as

process, task, function, job, role, …

Reusable Competency Definition (RCD)

• Defines/describes the competency• Not relationships

Competency Profile (CP)

• Profile of person/functions• RCD (URI’s)• Structure (relationships between RCDs)

Competency Profile Node (CPNODE)

• A sub-profile • Qualified– Proficiency level (or fluency)

• May be referenced from other parts of the profile structure, or from outside the profile structure

Evidence Distillation Request (EDR)

• An assessment request– Generic– Target person or group (e.g, ass)– E.g, all new hires need to be assessed on awareness of

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Evidence Record (ER)

• a proof of competency • particular person and particular RCD

Competency (Required Evidence) Record (CRER)

• Set of required evidence records• For a particular RCD or CP of a person/function/…• Evidence of a competency from more than one evidence

records

Thank You!