The foundation for future education, teaching, training, learning, and performing infrastructure - The open...

Area of Science:

• Educational Technology
• Computer Science
• Information Science

Background:

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have transformed early Networked Learning (NL) into a Global Learning Infrastructure.
• Creating cooperative networks of stakeholders offers significant potential for social progress.
• Challenges include semantic embedding in credentials, trusted dissemination of competence tokens, ontology mapping, and sustainable infrastructure.

Purpose of the Study:

• To specify and develop a conceptual framework fostering interoperability among diverse stakeholders.
• To enable declaration, sharing, and maintenance of information resources for education, learning, teaching, training, and performing endeavors.
• To provide a foundation for comparative analysis of competency-building processes and student portfolio management.

Main Methods:

• Specification of an open, heterogeneous, interoperable conceptual framework.
• Orchestration of past, current, and future learning paradigms.
• Design for supporting comparative analysis and student portfolio management.

Main Results:

• An open, heterogeneous, interoperable conceptual framework has been specified.
• The framework is designed to orchestrate diverse learning paradigms.
• It lays the foundation for evaluating traditional and non-traditional competency-building processes.

Conclusions:

• The specified framework supports interoperability for a global learning infrastructure.
• It addresses key challenges in digital competence sharing and management.
• This work serves as a starting point for a future service-oriented software framework.