Project Summary (derived from final report)

The project aimed to support employer engagement and workforce planning requirements by providing a tool intended to provide an integrated view of curriculum provision, both in employer based and higher education sectors of UK. This tool allows end users to import documents containing course descriptions from professional providers, employer specific training and HE, and provide a semantic similarity between the documents.
The work also investigated defining types of course information required to support employer-led learner route planning and the potential for exchange of this information (using a specification for the eXchange of Course-Related Information or ‘XCRI’) between various providers.

From report - Have developed a transform tool that enables MS Word documents’ export into the JISC XCRI-CAP standard; and another APEL mapping tool to support employer-led learner route planning by the mapping of an imported XCRI_CAP description (done by the transform tool) to HE and / or FE courses

Access to Middlesex Oracle database problematic

Need more test data for complete tool validation;

Relationship with partner QA-IQ weakened;

Integrating the semantic tool into the MUSKET tool:;

IB Link: http://www.innovationbase.net/app/model/view?id=165&m=165&currentpage=model

Support the mapping of an imported XCRI_CAP description to HE and / or FE courses. Done through transform tool (allow non-technical specialists to import MS Word documents containing course descriptions from professional providers, employer specific training and HE and provide semantic markup to enable export into the JISC XCRI-CAP standard beyond simple XML editing.)

APEL mapping tool to support employer-led learner route planning

The project will deliver models (documented in standards such as UML and BPMN) that will span employer engagement and course information in a unified and integrated manner.