Public Version of the Roadmap

Number
 D8.8
Publication Date
 02 March 2011
Description
The overall objective of the ICOPER Roadmap is to provide information on the "current", "desired" and "emerging" situation of outcome-based learning in Europe, within a 10-year horizon and engage different groups working on this domain in an ongoing dialogue on the issues reflected in this roadmap. In ICOPER, we focused on Higher Education and on analysing and facilitating the adoption of current and emerging standards and specifications for supporting outcome-based education, while addressing issues such as creating learning designs and teaching methods, authoring content for re-use, transferring knowledge in an outcome-oriented way and assessing it, or evaluating learning activities. Consequently, the roadmap was built with special attention to ICT standards, but it also has a broader horizon and scope. Although, ICT standards is our main focus, as opposed to institutional and cultural considerations, the Roadmapping activities aimed to bring in "the community" requirements into the specification design process and in the standards consensus building process. Therefore, we are aiming at bringing in the perspectives and views of the different stakeholder groups, such as TEL projects, domain experts, industry experts, and users of outcome-based education (faculty and learners) in an attempt to support the adoption of such standards in the domain. This is necessary, since our focus was not only on the definition or selection of standards, but also on addressing the challenge of overcoming the lack of adoption of these standards. Overall, the confusion around the applicability (fit-for-purpose) of standards and specifications in technology-enhanced learning results in a lack of adoption, which consequently has a profound negative impact on making digital content in Europe more accessible, usable, and exploitable.