1. Gateway to Competency Portability
Community Launch
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2. Incident Response & Remediation: Forensics
Objectives
Societal: Enable competencies to function as a common currency for training, credentials, and careers
Operational: Enable competencies to be defined once and used many times
Technical: Provide the infrastructure for competency portability and competency-based learner profiles
COMPETENCY:
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3. Basic objects in CASS Competency Frameworks Competency Profiles
Sets of related competencies
Competency Frameworks
Sets of competencies associated with a subject, job, task, or activity
With levels, relationships, roll-up rules
Competency Profiles
Assertions about competencies held by an individual
With source, evidence, and confidence
Robust permissions and privacy model
Assertions of individual* competence
* Yes, we know teams are important!
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4. CASS Ecosystem
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5. Current State
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6. USE CASES ADL “PAL” Ecosystem
Developing (and applying) competency frameworks
Credentialing
Translating among standardized representations
Your use case goes here …
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7. What CASS offers Shareability and interoperability Machine readability
Persistent URL’s
Security and privacy
Simple tools
LMS/LRS
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8. What’s in CASS CASS Web site (www.cassproject.org)
High level documentation and resources
Sandbox (
Explore CASS components
GitHub Code Repository (
Download and contribute code
Framework Manager
View / Create / Edit frameworks and competencies
Import / Export frameworks
Profile Manager
View / Create / Edit profiles
Resource tagging tool
Demonstrates end user app built on CASS
Tag resources in a registry or repository with competency GUIDs
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9. Assertion Processing 3 1 Learning System 2 4
Wants to know whether a learner holds competency C
If evidence exists,
it is returned to CASS 3
“Ecosystem”
LRS
Other Learning System
Credential System
Tutor 1
Learning System provides ID of learner & asks if learner holds Competency C
CASS asks other systems if they have evidence about the learner
Learning System 2
CASS returns answer to learning system
CASS examines and processes evidence to determine answer 4
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10. Assertion Processing
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11. CASS is enabling infrastructure
Primary use is through (REST) APIs
Refer to competencies through globally unique IDs (GUIDs)
Import / export frameworks in standardized formats
Submit queries concerning an individual’s competencies
Answer queries concerning an individual’s competencies
CASS takes care of plumbing
Collating assertions
Interconnectivity
Interoperability
Synchronization
Formatting tags
Security
Persistence
External Frameworks
LRS
Learning Applications
Repositories
& Registries
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12. 2016 Project Schedule Competency Frameworks Profile Manager
January - July, 2016
Feedback requested now
Profile Manager 
March - September, 2016
Assertion Processing
May - October, 2106
Feedback - requested by July 31
Resource Alignment
July - October, 2016
Feedback - requested by Sept 30
Community Review
October - November, 2016
Feedback - requested by Oct 31
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13. Details on cassproject.org and via slack
2016 Deeper Dives
Competency Frameworks
June, 2016
Profile Manager 
July, 2016
Installation Jam 
TBD
August, 2016
Integration Jam
September, 2016
Assertion Processing
September, 2016
Resource Alignment
October, 2016
Application Jam
TBD
November, 2016
TBD 
December, 2016
Details on cassproject.org and via slack
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14. Community Channels Project Information Links to Community Tools
Documentation
Mailing List
Share Feedback
Informal Updates
Communicate with Development Team
Report Issues
View Source Code
Contribute Source Code
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15. www.cassproject.org Questions? 24-MAY-2016 CASS Community Launch
Thank you!
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