Development:Competencies
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Introduction
The outcomes and scales architecture introduced in Moodle 1.9 provide a solid foundation for competency management, particularly of course outcomes. To model the range of different types of competency frameworks used by organisations, Moodle 2.0's competency architecture needs to allow:
- Competencies to be independent of courses and activities. Some examples:
- Completing three specific course fulfills one competency
- Providing electronic example (e.g., a scanned computer science diploma fulfills A-D competencies)
- Competencies to be organised into frameworks on a site level in unlimited ways, allowing:
- Taxonomies (i.e., categories)
- Folksonomies (i.e., tags)
- Hybrids of both
- Multiple competency frameworks in the same Moodle instance
- Competencies to rely on outcome types
- Competencies to be gained by various methods (or types of evidence):
- Achieving one or more outcomes in one or more courses
- Completing one or more courses (i.e., when completing course A, course B, and course C)
- Completing one or more activities (i.e., when completing activity x in course A and activity y in course B, and activity z in course C)
- Exceeding the aggregate result threshold for a question category within an evaluation (i.e., feedback using quiz)
- Exceeding the aggregate result threshold for a question category within an assessment (i.e., quiz)
- Electronic file (a diploma, external certification)
- User file area (via the file API)
- External repository (via the portfolio API)
- ePortfolio (via the repository API)
- Comment / testimony / reference
- Competencies to be attached to standard/custom user profile fields (e.g., 'level' - "First year student", or 'major' - "English")
- Competencies to be tied an individual user (either by user profile field or by drag and drop)
- Expected "evidence" and "competency proficiency levels" to be defined for links between standard/custom user profile field items and a competencies for each evidence type:
- Outcome level (i.e., scale value)
- A course's standard course completion criteria
- A course's standard course activity criteria
- Custom course completion criteria
- Custom activity completion criteria
- Aggregate result threshold for a question category
- Required electronic file
- Competencies to allow one or more types of evidence
- Custom metadata to be easily attached to competencies and standard/custom user profile fields items
