http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong e-portfolios, abilities, values, development Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:07:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The concept of the personal learning environment could helpfully be more related to the e-portfolio (e-p), as both can help informal learning of skills, competence, etc., whether these abilities are formally defined or not. Several people at CETIS/IEC here in Bolton had a wide-ranging discussion this Thursday morning (2010-02-18), focused around ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2010/02/18/ple-e-p-or-what/ The other European project I'm involved in for CETIS is called ICOPER. Over the last couple of weeks I've been doing some work improving the deliverable D2.2, mainly working with Jad Najjar. I flag it here because it uses some of the conceptual modelling work I've been involved in. My ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2010/02/04/icoper-and-outcomes/ eCOTOOL – eCOmpetences TOOLs – is a 2-year European project in which Bolton / CETIS are collaborating principally through me. We are producing an information model for the Europass Certificate Supplement (ECS), applied to training in the agricultural sector. The kick-off meeting was in Essen, December 14th to 16th, and this ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2010/01/06/ecotool/ This serves a personal position statement for the CETIS Future of Interoperability Standards Meeting 2010-01-12 Why and how the Semantic Web We want interoperability specifications and standards with a Semantic Web underlay, because that is the fundamental common denominator, well-adapted to evolving systems, good for reuse, post-modern; using and enabling a "linked data" strategy, with emphasis on: URI-identified resources, with ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2010/01/05/developing-semantic-web-friendly-specifications/ This conceptual model now includes basic ideas about what goes on in the individual, plus some of the most important concepts for PDP and e-portfolio use, as well as the generalised formalisable concepts processes surrounding individual action. It has come a long way since the last time I wrote about ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2009/12/11/development-of-a-conceptual-model-5/ The CEN WS-LT Competency SIG discussions of a conceptual model for skill/competence/competency are still at the very interesting early stage where very many questions are open. What kind of model are we trying to reach, and how can we get to where we could get? Anything seems possible, including experiments ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2009/12/04/more-competency/ At the CETIS 2009 conference on Wednesday we built a consensus model on the floor -- or at least, made a lot of progress towards one -- connected to competence. Not many people turned up in the end -- we had more booked onto the session than came -- but ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2009/11/13/a-partially-reconstructed-competence-maze/ Is there a useful, simple, easily understandable set of categories (or "top ontology" ) for helping people know what kind of thing they are thinking of when doing conceptual modelling or concept maps? I started to think about this kind of thing when writing my book on e-portfolios, because I wanted ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2009/10/14/top-ontology/ This version of the conceptual model (of learning opportunity provision + assessment + award of credit or qualification) uses the CmapTools facility for grouping nodes; and it further extends the use of my own "top ontology" (introduced in my book). There are now two diagrams: a contracted and an expanded version. ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2009/10/13/development-of-a-conceptual-model-4/ I spent 3 days in Lyon this week, in meetings with European project colleagues and learning technology standardization people. This model had a good airing, and there was lots of discussion and feedback. So it has developed quite a lot over the three days from the previous version. So, let's start ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/2009/10/02/development-of-a-conceptual-model-3/