Welcome to KM

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ICOPER -Interoperable Content for Performance
in a Competency-driven Society
(2008-11-25)
An eContentplus Best Practice Network
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Activities at Higher Education Institutionsthat
the ICOPER project investigates
Our MissionICOPER collects and further develops
best practices for interoperable content
supporting competency-driven higher education
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Standards and Specifications we investigate
Source Technical Annex
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The ICOPER BPN will provide mechanisms to

• Access a critical mass of more than 12,500 hours
  of integrated educational content.
• Systematically analyze and assess the
  implementation of existing specifications (e.g.
  IMS RCDEO, IMS LD, SQI, QTI) for Delivering
  Competency-Driven Educational Content
• Ensure European-wide user involvement,
  cooperation, and adoption of standards within a
  large community to support all phases of
  standardization
• Condense findings into an ICOPER Reference Model
  which will be fed back to standards bodies
• Provide a Technical Roadmap for competency Based
  Education Delivery
• Establish a Virtual Institute for Training and
  Consulting

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ICOPER test beds

• Learning Needs and Opportunities planning test
  bed will use Competency Standards as a starting
  point in order to define an approach towards a
  unified description of Educational Learning
  Offerings based on Learning Outcomes (i.e.
  knowledge, skills, competences)
• Instructional Modeling test bed will
  investigate the technology supported Generic
  Instructional Models in Specific Instructional
  Contexts
• Content Development test bed will focus on
  sharing best practices on innovative approaches
  for content development and reuse both open (web
  2.0 user generated content) and closed
  (repositories) approaches
• Learning Delivery test bed it will investigate
  and support the delivery of activity-based
  learning scenarios with open content.
• Assessment test bed is concerned with tracking
  the skills acquired and evaluated the learning
  delivered

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ICOPER Reference Model

• These 5 test beds will also act as large-scale
  implementations, drawing conclusions on the
  validity of standards and specifications
• the results will be documented in and change
  proposals and will be integrated in an initial
  version of the ICOPER Reference Model (IRM)

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Putting it all together
ICOPER content space
ICOPER Test beds
ICOPER Institute for training and Consulting
Specification Discourse Database
ICOPER Reference Model
ICOPER Technical Roadmap
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The ICOPER Roadmap

• Identify current and emerging requirements
• Capture desired scenarios for creating and
  delivering competency-driven learning based on
  interoperable content
• Assess the maturity of current status
• Bridge the gaps between pre-standardisation,
  standardisation and standards adoption
• Provide actions/recommendations

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The ICOPER Institute for Training Consulting

• Establish a virtual institute for training and
  consulting as an important instrument for
  European-wide consensus building
• Two core objectives
• Knowledge transfer and training
• Networking players in eContent area

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Individuals (Users) we are concerned with (1/2)

• University Management is ultimately responsible
  for delivering higher education and the provision
  of learning offerings for life-long learning
• Course Designers works with the Instructional
  Designer and Content Author to create a unit of
  learning that satisfy competency needs

• Instructional Designers is in charge of
  selecting, adapting and implementing
  instructional designs for courses or other
  life-long learning offerings
• Content Authors creates new or modifies existing
  content (e.g. by translation) that can be
  directly or indirectly used for facilitating
  learning

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Individuals (Users) we are concerned with (2/2)

• Learners aims at acquiring knowledge, skills or
  a change in attitudes by getting involved in
  formal or non-formal learning activities
• Instructors is assisting the Learner in the
  learning activity.ssessing the Learners progress
• Course Evaluators is in charge of performing
  quality management within an organisation by
  setting up a process that allows learners or
  other stakeholders to provide feedback to the
  learning processes

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Who we are

• 23 partners from all over Europe
• 10 WP leaders
• 13 Project partners
• Project Coordinator Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
• Open Network philosophy everyone can get
  involved, contribute, and benefit
• To learn how get involve go to
• www.icoper.org

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Lead by
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Consortium

• Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
• UK Open University
• University of Cyprus
• University of Leicester
• Open University of the Netherlands
• University of Jyväskylä
• IMC AG
• Tallinn University, Centre for Educational
  Technology
• Chambre de Commerce et dIndustrie de Paris
  HEC
• Jozef Stefan Institute

• NCSR Demokritos
• Institut National des Télécommunications
• University of Vienna
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• AGH University of Science and Technology
• Kaunas University of Technology
• Knowledge Markets Consulting GesmbH
• Oslo University College
• Synergetics nv
• GiuntiLabs
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Umeå University, Department of Interactive Media
  and Learning
• Humance

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Contact

• Project Coordinator
• Bernd Simon, Wirtshaftsuniversität Wien
• bernd.simon_at_wu-wien.ac.at
• Outreach and dissemination
• Vana Kamstiou, Demokritos, Athen
• vana_at_dat.demokritos.gr
• Tore Hoel, Oslo University College
• tore.hoel_at_hio.no