Transcript Frameworks of competence: common or specific?

Frameworks of competence:
common or specific?
Simon Grant
Joint coordinator, JISC-CETIS Portfolio SIG
Independent consultant
… emerging from work in collaboration with
Adam Marshall, Janet Strivens and others
Outline
 Hoping for “real” workshop interaction
 Constructivist approach to this workshop… 
 Discuss requirements of frameworks
 How do / could you use them in practice?
 Focus on common / specific tension
 How does this match with our experience?
 Explore the way forward
 Note: “skill” – “competence” distinction may be important in other
contexts, but less so here
How do you use frameworks?
 managing skills and competences in an
organisation or enterprise?
 helping learners develop their own skills?
 definition of learning objectives and
educational outcomes?
 any real / imagined use for public, international
standard definitions of competence?
 anyone involved with EQF? Used how?
SFIA
 Skills Framework for the Information Age
 Example of widely used industry skills
framework (in UK, generic ICT skills)
 http://www.sfia.org.uk/
 Look at some materials
LUSID
 Originally from University of Liverpool
 Handouts available
 E-PDP system; close to e-portfolio
 Skills, activities, achievements, goals, …
 http://lusid.org.uk/
 Originally devised for generic or
transferable skills
 Can be easily customised
Transferable skills
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Management of learning
Teamwork
Oral communication
Writing
Information accessing
Critical thinking / analysis
Numeracy
Information technology
e.g. Oral communication
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Understanding instructions
Making notes from presentation
Assessing persuasive language
Recognise feelings of others*
Conveying information clearly
Explaining own opinions
Exchanging ideas
Preparing presentation
Using visual aids
Delivering presentation
Taking into account other people’s perspectives*
Common or specific?
 Why should frameworks be common?
 Why should frameworks not be specific?
 discuss
 Why should frameworks be specific?
 Why should frameworks not be common?
 discuss
SPWS
 “Skills Profiling Web Service”
 http://www.elframework.org/projects/spws
 Articulates the common-specific
distinctions
 Proposes a way forward
Common and specific
Concluding…
 Common where agreement wanted
 Narrow, specific terms more likely to be agreed
 Create common reference terms
 Use level structures only if very common
 Specific where diversity allowable
 For specific implementations
 Teaching, learning and assessment
 Individual organisations and businesses
 Links between common and specific
 Overlap analysis then possible