T3 Open Competencies Standards

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This page lists some of the Standards that we are aware of that may be used to record Compentency Definitions. Inclusion or omission on this page does not reflect any judgement about the quality of the standard. Please contact Phil Barker about any errors or omissions, email: phil.barker[at]pjjk.co.uk.

Competency standards

The following standards have the machine readable description of competencies at their core.

ASN

RDF data model, value vocabularies and mappings used by the Achievement Standards Network, developed through NSF funding by JES&Co and the University of Washington with documentation available at https://asn.desire2learn.com/content/technical-documentation under D2L management. The schema is available for anyone to use under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

CTDL-ASN

The profile of ASN developed and maintained by Credential Engine expands the ASN schema and integrates with the Credential Transparency Description Language, available from https://credreg.net/ctdlasn/schema and handbook. The schema is available for anyone to use under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

CASE

Information model with JSON-LD binding for Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange, developed and owned by 1EdTech, available from https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/case/.

ESCO

SKOS/RDF-based data model used for the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations multilingual classification scheme, maintained by Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) of the European Commission, more information at https://esco.ec.europa.eu/en/about-esco/escopedia/escopedia/skills-pillar.

IEEE 1484.20.3 (also 1484.20.2)

IEEE Approved Draft Standard Data Model for Sharable Competency Definitions, see https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1484.20.3/10749/ (see also IEEE Recommended Practice for Defining Competencies https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1484.20.2/10743/).

InLoc (CEN Workshop Agreement 16655)

Data model for Integrating Learning Outcomes and Competences, formalized as CEN Workshop Agreement 16655, see https://www.cetis.org.uk/inloc/Home.

MedBiquitous

XML data model for competency frameworks and related objects for MedBiquitous, the standards development program of the Association of American Medical Colleges, see https://www.medbiq.org/standards.

Other relevant standards

The following standards include some capability for machine readable description of competencies though it is not their main concern.

• Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)
• HR-Open Standards
• Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC)
• Access for Learning (A4L) SIF Specification