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The competency related resources on this page are all about technical standards to capture competency data and standards for competency data management. Rather than "competency standards" as inventories of competencies, these are technical standards about capturing, exchanging and managing data about competency, or technical standards about capturing and representing the competency models defined in a "competency standard". And in case you wonder, there is a connection with SCORM.
The
W20 working group of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards
Committee (http://ieeeltsc.org/wg20Comp/) has been working toward an IEEE standard to
capture reusable competency definitions, based on the IMS
Global Learning Consortium's RDCEO specification. This is IEEE project P1484.20.1.
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The IMS
Global Learning Consortium (http://imsglobal.org/) released in October 2002 a
specification for Reusable Definition of Competency or
Educational Objective (RDCEO) which contains an information
model, a best practices document and an XML binding. This
document is the foundation document for the IEEE standard
project.
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The HR-XML
Consortium (http://hr-xml.org/) publishes and develops XML schemas for
competency records, competency evidence, etc.
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This
diagram is an attempt to show how learning management,
training management and performance support systems can be
aligned with business goals as part of an "ecosystem of
competencies".
- Claude Ostyn, Last updated: 6 September 2005
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Described in more detail in the Learning Technology: The Big Picture page on this site.
This paper
proposes a simplified framework that uses simple, standard
data formats and services to help automate the collection and
adaptive assessment of individual and group competencies. The
framework also supports the automation of skill gap analysis
as well as the automation of adaptive performance
support. It also provides for auditing, general
security, confidentiality and privacy requirements. It takes into account credibility issues and the sanity measures necessary to
avoid corruption by unreliable data.
This white paper may result in
specific proposals for new standards or for inclusion in
existing standards projects.
- Claude Ostyn, Last updated: 12 May 2005
PDF file (60 pages - 1.2MB - right-click the link to
download)
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This
one page document is excerpted from the Competency Data
Framework document above,
which proposes a simplified, service-oriented framework to
support functional requirements for competency tracking and
personalized assessment, learning and training. The framework
includes legacy data, processes and policies as well as new
digital objects and systems. It also leverages standards like
SCORM, digital object identifiers, the emerging standards for
repositories, and the emerging CORDRA specification for the
registration and resolution of identifiers for content
objects. This helps provide a complete, streamlined solution
that does more with less.
- Claude Ostyn, Last updated: 21 April 2005
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This paper proposes a simplified process to distill
competency information for individuals and teams, using
simple standard data structures and a robust process. It
discusses distillation of legacy, formal assessment and SCORM
competency data.
- Claude Ostyn, (draft in progress) Last updated: 15
March 2005; incorporated into the framework document
above.
PDF document (565K)
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Use case exploring how training and performance support can
be planned to align with project requirements.
- Claude Ostyn, Last updated: 17 October 2005
PDF
document (242K)
Use case exploring how standardized competency data can be
used to support the recruitment specification, screening and
selection process.
- Claude Ostyn, Last updated: 17 October 2005
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document (162K)
This is a
proposal for a Reusable Competency Map standard draft.
Reusable Competency Maps (also introduced in the framework
document above) allow the capture and interoperability of the
relationships between Reusable Competency Definitions. They
can be used, for example, to represent the competency
requirements for a job, personal competency profiles,
competency requirements derived from a technical manual, or
mappings between competency models. This document is posted
to invite comments and collaboration or coordination with
other people interested in this or similar proposals.
Includes XML binding sample.
- Claude Ostyn, (draft in progress) Last updated: 24
February 2006
PDF
document (453K) A Microsoft Word version is available on
request.
Zip
archive of XML schema (.xsd) and 3 sample xml files
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Previous version, out of date. Last updated: 17
November 2005
PDF
document (406K) A Microsoft Word version is available on
request.
Claude Ostyn, (draft in progress) Last updated: 11 October 2006
This draft contains a terminology section and a preliminary list of services and their interfaces.
When complete, this document will describe a compact framework for a service-oriented architecture for the competency data aspects of lifelong learning management systems. Lifelong learning management requires extraordinary data longevity as well as auditing and confidence management. The ability to deal with data that may come from many non-standard sources and may be based on opinion rather than objective facts has to be built into the framework. The described framework supports competency models such as would be found in a job competency profile or educational plan. It also supports the capture and storage of personal or group competency data of various levels of quality and trustworthiness. It facilitates but does not specify security and privacy protections for data as well as processes. The framework enables a number of application scenarios, such as collection of personal competency profiles, remapping of information from a curriculum vitae against a standardized competency model, matching of information from a curriculum vitae against competency requirements for a job, or skill gap analysis to determine training needs.
Current draft (PDF - 262K)
Proposal for a standards based "building blocks" approach
to competency and assessment management.
- Claude Ostyn, (incomplete draft, to be subsumed and superseded by document above) Last updated: 8
January 2005.
PowerPoint (211K)
The O*NET US occupational database is a large model of all the occupations in the US econonomy. Along with the descriptions of all the occupation, it lists the basic skills required for each occupation. However, it does not have a list of skills definitions as such.
Definitions extracted from the O*NET database, to illustrate how legacy competency models can be recycled using the draft Reusable Competency Definition standard. (Interactive demo: View online)
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