An Ontology and a Software Framework for Competency Modeling and Management

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Ontology and a Software Framework for Competency Modeling and Management
While we have been talking about web 2.0 and personal learning environments, the educational technology standards community has been forging ahead in its own direction, now working on the development of specifications to define competences. "Acquiring new competencies is the central goal of any education or knowledge management process," writes Gilbert Paquette as he presents "an ontology for designing competency-based learning and knowledge management applications." My own feeling is that learning is not reducible to sets of competences, that the whole is, indeed, greater than the sum of the parts. More...