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CEN works on Learner Information - Summary
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These contents have been obtained from the CEN/ISSS WS-LT Web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the CEN/ISSS WS-LT for additional information on terms of use.
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The objective of the Learner Mobility project as a whole is "the provision of guidelines on a data model for the expression and exchange of European Learner Mobility information, as defined by the European Transparency instruments. The results of the proposed work will contribute to the effort towards interoperable European-wide IT systems that manage and exchange Europass related information."
The following figure illustrates a broad view of learner mobility from different points of view.
A diagrammatic representation of learner mobility
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First, European and National policy stakeholders — as the main initiators and promoters of European and cross-cultural and trans-national learning, education and training (LET) policies and instruments — could be imagined as being above the diagram, looking down at the whole. They are represented here looking in from all sides of the diagram.
Second, there are the three other stakeholder groups: (1) Learners, (2) Employers, and (3) LET organisations offering learning, education, and training opportunities. Each of these three stakeholder groups organises their information about LET around particular concepts that are useful to them: these are the arrows near the three sides of the diagram. In practice, this information is organised into structured sets: these are the boxes in the areas marked "Information Models". Some of these sets of information have agreed specifications of their electronic representation, some at present only have paper formats, which may or may not be generally agreed or standardized. The information models shown are only illustrative: on the employers' side, in particular, there are many more.
Third, there are the Developers and Implementers as additional stakeholders that may attempt to develop and offer services that are related to learner mobility in some way. Some of these services are shown in ovals within the central "Services" rectangle. In this broad view, services relevant to learner mobility range from those helping learners choose LET opportunities, and those related to the administration processes involved in taking up learning opportunities, through services relevant to LET itself, to services relevant to helping learners secure desired employment.
Lastly, it is the role of European standardization organisations, in consensus, to assemble the standards and specifications, to be used by developers and implementers, to build interoperable tools and services that help satisfy the needs of the other stakeholder groups. Instead of standardizing long and inflexible information models, the standardization of small information entities offers a modular approach promoting reuse of base information schemes in larger models. These "building block" standards and specifications can then be mixed-and-matched in larger information models to cover specific needs and drive the implementation of European-wide Services. The standardization organisations themselves are also like the policy stakeholders, not shown as they should ideally have an overview of the complete picture, so that the standards and specifications produced or adopted can be optimally adapted for reuse across, and even beyond, the field of learner mobility. |
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