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This design is based on input from many existing implementations of outcomes/competencies and learning plans including: | This design is based on input from many existing implementations of outcomes/competencies and learning plans including: | ||
* “Outcomes | * “Outcomes 2” in Joule | ||
* Totara | * Totara | ||
* Referentiel Activity Module (Skills Repository) | * Referentiel Activity Module (Skills Repository) | ||
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'''Learning plans''' - a set of competencies that can be assigned to a student (or cohorts of students). Initially, they will all be marked "incomplete". As students achieve each competency it is marked complete, thereby showing their progress towards finishing all of them. Students achieve competencies either automatically (by successfully completing a course with that competency) or manually (by proving to someone that they are competent via portfolio items etc). | '''Learning plans''' - a set of competencies that can be assigned to a student (or cohorts of students). Initially, they will all be marked "incomplete". As students achieve each competency it is marked complete, thereby showing their progress towards finishing all of them. Students achieve competencies either automatically (by successfully completing a course with that competency) or manually (by proving to someone that they are competent via portfolio items etc). | ||
==Competencies== | |||
A competency is a unit of learning. All competencies belong to a competency framework, and it is likely that a competency framework will be defined by an external body such as an academic standards board. | |||
To create a competency, you first define the framework and then add the competency to it. | |||
Competency frameworks are defined by “Framework Administrators” at the site level. To create and edit competency frameworks, go to “Site administration” -> “Competency Frameworks”. | |||
Revision as of 14:47, 2 July 2015
| Framework for competency-based education (CBE) in Moodle | |
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| Project state | In Progress |
| Tracker issue | MDL-49458 |
| Discussion | tbd |
| Assignee | Damyon Wiese |
Framework for competency-based education (CBE) in Moodle
Summary
This specification describes our plan to improve support for outcomes-based education in Moodle core. There have been many other attempts to add such systems to Moodle but they all use different data structures and processes and are incompatible. Our aim here is to build basic central structures and APIs to store and manipulate this data, allowing the Moodle community to build innovative custom interfaces on top of it.
This design is based on input from many existing implementations of outcomes/competencies and learning plans including:
- “Outcomes 2” in Joule
- Totara
- Referentiel Activity Module (Skills Repository)
- ELIS
The goal is to implement a system that supports competency based education in a flexible way so that it can be used effectively by the many different target audiences.
The two main concepts are:
Competencies - a unit of learning, such as "Can make exceptional beer". Competencies can be assigned as goals of courses “This course will teach you to make exceptional beer”, and also to users: “Billy can make exceptional beer”. Competencies can also be hierarchical, so that the competency above might be marked proficient when some combination of sub-competencies has been marked proficient. For example : Can make exceptional beer ( Can choose good malt / Can choose good yeasts / Can brew beer in the good temperature / etc..)
Learning plans - a set of competencies that can be assigned to a student (or cohorts of students). Initially, they will all be marked "incomplete". As students achieve each competency it is marked complete, thereby showing their progress towards finishing all of them. Students achieve competencies either automatically (by successfully completing a course with that competency) or manually (by proving to someone that they are competent via portfolio items etc).
Competencies
A competency is a unit of learning. All competencies belong to a competency framework, and it is likely that a competency framework will be defined by an external body such as an academic standards board.
To create a competency, you first define the framework and then add the competency to it.
Competency frameworks are defined by “Framework Administrators” at the site level. To create and edit competency frameworks, go to “Site administration” -> “Competency Frameworks”.
