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ICOPER and outcomes – blog post from Simon Grant
Simon Grant working with CETIS, our new UK ICOPER partner, has blogged about one of the last deliverables from our project. We bring the full text of his blog post here, but please go to his blog to read the full story and explore the useful links in the text.
Looking into the future for outcome-based learning?
The report “ Envisaged future states report – user requirements and future scenarios” is the first step towards an ICOPER roadmap for outcome-based learning. The report invites to a discussion on three themes: • What is the context of outcome-based learning in Europe? • What signals on the horizon could potentially change this context? • And what is the desired future? The results of these discussions will feed further gap analysis where the aim is to assess how to achieve desired futures states for outcome-based learning.
2nd European Workshop on ICOPER Best Practice @ ICALT2010
Last year the ICOPER workshop got the award for "oustanding performance" at ICALT, the IEEE International conference of Advanced Learning Technologies. This years theme is "Best Practices in Outcome-based Online Learning – towards Models and Development for new Learning Technologies"
Ongoing ICOPER activities: completing the picture
While the first year of the project was devoted to analyzing state-of-the-art and building up a conceptual model for technology-enhanced learning in higher ed, ICOPER is entering now a new phase. Driven by a cross-WP activity focusing on the development of mock-ups, the vertical work packages 2 to 6 are currently in the process of defining their validation scenarios ...
ICOPER report on assessment and evaluation standards
ICOPER has just published a report on existing specifications and standards for assessment and evaluation and their usage in Europe.
Model for describing learning needs and opportunities
Nowadays, the management and interoperability of data about learning outcomes (knowledge, skill and competence) are of high importance for both education and employment sectors. By managing and sharing data about their profiles, learners in higher education and lifelong learning can better plan their careers and enhance their employability potential. In order to achieve this goal, the information about learning outcomes associated to units of learning as well as the learning outcomes achieved by learners need to be captured, stored and exchanged in a common format. This is the background for the latest ICOPER Suitability Reports for Better Practice, titled "Model for describing learning needs and learning opportunities taking context ontology modelling into account".
ICOPER reports on learning design and delivery
Learning Designs – how to describe them and how to run them in a delivery system? This is common focus of the two new ICOPER reports just published.
ICOPER presented at Open Forum in Umeå, Sweden
The ICOPER project was presented at the Open Forum prior to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 meeting in Umeå in September 2009.
ICOPER informed Laurillard presentation at ALT-C 2009
The ICOPER contributions to analysing learning design was an important input to the research Diana Laurillard presented during ALT-C 2009.
Join the Competency SIG mail list
The Competency SIG supported by ICOPER, CEN/ISSS WS-LT, JISC-CETIS and other players in the "Comptency field" has established a mail list for the SIG ddiscussions.
RSS feeds for the ICOPER Discourse Space
ICOPER is now starting to use the Discourse Tool to discuss issues on standards and concepts preparing the ICOPER Reference Model. To keep close watch on this discussion you should use a number RSS feed provided.
New Content-Development Methodologies Survey
Most content development in the ICOPER community institutions is still driven by ‘first use’ design, rather than by ‘reuse’ principles, a ICOPER study conducted by the UK Open University shows. The study is a deliverable coming out of the ICOPER work package on Content Development & Reuse led by the UK Open University.
ICOPER report on connecting learning outcomes to units of learning
The ICOPER approach to modelling learning outcomes and connecting them to units of learning is published in a ICOPER Suitability Reports for Better Practice. The ultimate aim of this activity is to enable online finding and delivery of outcome-based learning.
ICOPER presented at IMS Learning Impact 2009
Jacques Dang and Tore Hoel presented the ICOPER project to the IMS Learning Impact Conference 2009 in Barcelona, 12 May, in e European Industry Learning Group led session on Creativity & Innovation in European Education.
First version of ICOPER Communication and Dissemination Strategy
The Communication and Dissemination Strategy for the ICOPER Best Practice Network is published.
First version of ICOPER Open Content Spaces published
The first report on the Open ICOPER Content Space Implementation of 1st Generation of Open ICOPER Content Space is delivered, including Integration Mini Case Studies
Call for papers for Workshop at ICALT 2009 in Riga
ICOPER invites to a workshop on best practices in use of standards to support delivery of learning at ICALT 2009, Riga - Latvia, July 14 - 18, 2009
Report on Competency Symposium to CEN/ISSS WS-LT
The ICOPER project has reported to the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies on the Symposium on Comptencies as the common Currency 4 learning outcomes.
