(part of the InLOC work)

Information Model for Learning Outcomes and Competences

Introduction

The InLOC Information Model will build upon existing frameworks, their classes and their properties, and will reuse the most common concepts. It will reflect the relationships and dependencies among the common concepts. Relationships between concepts across models will support bindings and mappings.

Content

InLOC information model deliverable will be a technical and lean document consisting of following parts:

1. Introduction and Scope – provides an executive summary and specifies what is in scope and what is out of scope of the document. Conceptual model is not part of this deliverable, as it will be covered by InLOC guidelines.
2. Key Features of the model – specifies the key features of the InLOC model, referring as well to other models in order to reflect the relationships and dependencies to common concepts.
3. InLOC Model – describes classes, properties of the model and their relationships that result from stakeholder models (e.g. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative)

Methodology

The development of the information model will closely follow the development of the InLOC guidelines. Development of the information model development will apply following methodology:

• agreement of possible Features of models of competence and learning outcome that may be possibly included in InLOC;
• examination of which stakeholders and sources use or may require these features;
• identification of the key features that are
  • actively used by the stakeholders,
  • wanted by stakeholders,
  • likely to be wanted in the near future;
• initiation of draft models that cover the kinds of features anticipated in the least complex way that can be envisaged;
• division of the model construction process into a logical sequence of stages;
• working through each model construction stage, agreeing on features to be included in the InLOC model, on properties/attributes that are needed to deliver the features, and distilling the consensus processes as explanatory materials
  (InLOC use cases and scope produced during the drafting of guidelines will be implicitly taken account of in defining the model);
• putting together the model.

Feedback will be used to iteratively develop and refine the model.