Towards a Semantic Framework for Lifelong Integrated Competency Management and Development. (15th August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rezgui, Kalthoum; Mhiri, Hédia
• Is Part Of: Computer journal. Volume 63:Number 7(2020)
• Page Start: 1004
• Page End: 1016
• Publication Date: 2019-08-15
• Subjects: competency -- competency information integration -- ontology -- learning object -- learning design -- learning network -- lifelong learning; Computers -- Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxz067
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0010-4620

Abstract

Abstract: In the domain of technology-enhanced competency-based learning and training, there is an increased interest in the integration of competency-related information for supporting competency-driven decision-making purposes. Indeed, since competency development draws upon several related areas, including teaching subjects, instructional design, learning resource annotation, e-Portfolios and motivated by the need for an integrated and semantic-based approach to competency management and development, a series of ontological structures have been formalized and developed for each of these areas. This paper aims to provide a framework specification for lifelong competency management and development, called LCMDF. The main advantage of this framework lies in its ability to provide a unifying semantic foundation in the form of a set of controlled vocabularies for describing competencies and their related details within the contexts of technology-enhanced competency-based learning and training. Moreover, this framework provides a novel integrated model to support a wide range of use cases. The proposed framework results from reusing widespread international standards for competency modeling which helps designing and implementing interoperability architecture of semantically-enhanced competency-based learning/human resource (HR) systems.