1. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 ISIS Individualized Support In Sequencing Hans Hummel, José Janssen, Frans Prins, Bert van den Berg, Francis Brouns, UD3, AIO2, Wim Waterink, Nanda Boers

2. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Lovely statue of Isis-Fortuna, bringer of luck and good navigation through seas and through life. Want to travel? Put this statue on your altar. $40 (http://isisadmin.freeyellow.com)

3. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 ISIS project aims  Develop a specification to represent (both formal and informal) learning goals (or competences)  Develop a specification to represent (both formal and informal) learning paths (or competence development programmes)  Contribute to the development of software tools to store and exchange goals, paths and learner characteristics; and  Build a navigation service that provides users with qualitative and individualized support when finding and sequencing their most suitable learning paths

4. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Duration Start date: January 1, 2006 End date: December 31, 2007 WP7, task 1: learning path spec WP7, task 5: advanced navigation service WP4: contribute to health care pilot Relation to TenCompetence

5. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Rationale Alignment of users and activities by tailored navigation services exchange of (informal & formal) competences and learning paths using (semantic) competence and path descriptions.

6. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Competence description IMS RDCEO & IEEE RCD provide –the ‘basics’: id, title, description, model (unstructured) and metadata (e.g. LOM) HR-XML adds –competence recursion –measurable evidence (existence or level of competence) –measurable weights (importance or sufficiency required) Required extensions/further information Possible semantic elements to be added: context (e.g. occupation, domain), type, level, composition, sector alignment, …

7. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Path description ECTS diploma supplement, QAA for HE (guidelines for ‘Specifying’) CDM (noors), XCRI (UK) (formele XML notatie) XCRI adds local instantiation (‘Offering’) Using LD to model paths (Tattersall et al.) Possible semantic elements to be added: Competence, Context / Interest (specially for informal learning), Composition (possibly from different institutions); sequence / selection (LD); Roles (within CDP); Scenarios; Grades; Costs (e.g. duration or credit points); Requirements/dependencies; …

8. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 CDP modeling (version 0.01)

9. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Initial analysis towards navigation service… Analysis available specifications and tools Techniques for matching laerner, competence and path chars? (top-down vs bottom-up user profiling) “Tailored recommender system using collaborative filtering” Storage and maintenance of learner chars? Select / relate (most relevant) goal, learner and activity chars: modeling the wayfinding domain (use cases, requirements, mock-up recommender system) Application to Psychology (sub)competences, course titles, …

10. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Combining … Theories, models and techniques (literature) (initial) architecture with class objects (Model) Requirements (scenarios) Domain model (organisation)

11. LTDP plenair, 13 februari 2006 Moodle space ISIS http://tdp.learningnetworks.org/course/view.php?id=38