ISIS

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ISIS Individualized Support In Sequencing
Hans Hummel, José Janssen, Frans Prins, Bert van
den Berg, Francis Brouns, UD3, AIO2, Wim
Waterink, Nanda Boers
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ISIS project aims

• Develop a specification to represent (both
  formal and informal) learning goals (or
  competences)
• Develop a specification to represent (both
  formal and informal) learning paths (or
  competence development programmes)
• Contribute to the development of software tools
  to store and exchange goals, paths and learner
  characteristics and
• Build a navigation service that provides users
  with qualitative and individualized support when
  finding and sequencing their most suitable
  learning paths

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Duration

• Start date January 1, 2006
• End date December 31, 2007

Relation to TenCompetence

• WP7, task 1 learning path spec
• WP7, task 5 advanced navigation service
• WP4 contribute to health care pilot

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Rationale

• Alignment of users and activities
• by tailored navigation services
• exchange of (informal formal) competences and
  learning paths
• using (semantic) competence and path descriptions.

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Competence description

• IMS RDCEO IEEE RCD provide
• the basics id, title, description, model
  (unstructured) and metadata (e.g. LOM)
• HR-XML adds
• competence recursion
• measurable evidence (existence or level of
  competence)
• measurable weights (importance or sufficiency
  required) Required extensions/further information
• Possible semantic elements to be added context
  (e.g. occupation, domain), type, level,
  composition, sector alignment,

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Path description

• ECTS diploma supplement, QAA for HE (guidelines
  for Specifying)
• CDM (noors), XCRI (UK) (formele XML notatie)
• XCRI adds local instantiation (Offering)
• Using LD to model paths (Tattersall et al.)
• Possible semantic elements to be added
  Competence, Context / Interest (specially for
  informal learning), Composition (possibly from
  different institutions) sequence / selection
  (LD) Roles (within CDP) Scenarios Grades
  Costs (e.g. duration or credit points)
  Requirements/dependencies

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CDP modeling (version 0.01)
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Initial analysis towards navigation service

• Analysis available specifications and tools
• Techniques for matching laerner, competence and
  path chars? (top-down vs bottom-up user
  profiling)
• Tailored recommender system using collaborative
  filtering
• Storage and maintenance of learner chars?
• Select / relate (most relevant) goal, learner and
  activity chars modeling the wayfinding domain
  (use cases, requirements, mock-up recommender
  system)
• Application to Psychology (sub)competences,
  course titles,

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Combining
Theories, models and techniques (literature)
(initial) architecture with class objects (Model)
Requirements (scenarios)
Domain model (organisation)
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• Moodle space ISIS
• http//tdp.learningnetworks.org/course/view.php?id
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