Facets of Curriculum ModellingMike Collett

EDRENE ConferenceDen Haag

December 2012

What?

curriculum– a race course (Latin - cursus) showing how

children grow into adults– a course: topics, levels, standards and objectives

often– a structured document– defines requirements– linked to qualifications and assessments

Why?

Why model a curriculum?

<put your own requirements here>

Why?

use parts in metadata for– resources and assessments– people

navigation– hierarchies– drop down list filters

modularise to share and reuse partsmap between curriculaadditional information in user interface

England National Curriculum

been through several cyclesOnline set of vocabularies

England National Curriculum

Not a single structureA single set of “tagging terms”Programmes of study (objectives)Schemes of workOther vocabularies provided:– structure– facets (at the time using related terms)– tagging rules, for example subject - key stage

England National Curriculum

Major revision with replacement 2008 Programmes of study and Schemes of work– only a few tagging terms added or removed– the main change was in objectives and work

schemes– new schemes were mapped to tagging terms

hence most legacy metadata still valid

STEM Portal

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/Bespoke CMS with SOLR for searchTagged with small selection of vocabularies– Subject– Key stage | Age range– Resource type– Content format– Publication date (year)– Publisher

Tags used for faceting

National Strategies

Professional development for UK professionalsOver 20,000 documentsRe-developed in 2008– dynamic content discovery and navigation by use of

metadata– navigation structure defined by a taxonomy, each

navigation point (or node) of which contained a queryRe-used many of the National Curriculum vocabsArchived site

National Strategies - Vocabularies

Stages of education – Phase (Early Years, Primary and Secondary), Key Stage, School YearCurriculum subject and subject specifiersRole or AudienceEducational topic – a dumping groundNavigation hierarchies for box navigation

Box Navigation

Faceted navigation

Work cycle

Where are the facets?

metadata propertiesas categories attached to curriculum items– automatic queries at nodes– simplify tagging

separate the management of vocabularies– multiple consuming services– quicker development– change management

thanks

Some links

mike@schemeta.comhttp://www.schemeta.comhttp://kennisnet.lexaurus.nethttp://culturegrid.lexaurus.nethttp://k-int.com/products/lexaurusbankhttp://europeanschoolnet-vbe.lexaurus.net