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...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Synthesis of the Student Relationship Management System Using the Internet of Things to Collect the Digital Footprint for Higher Education Institutions
Nualsri Songsom, Prachyanun Nilsook, Panita Wannapiroon, International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering, 2019/03/29
This paper is actually a synthesis of eleven other papers looking at various aspects of student management systems with respect to remote data gathering tools. The upshot is that the 'consensus' system described by these papers includes five elements: identify module, alert module, tracking module, SRM module, and an analytic module. More...