musket middlesex university skills & education planning tool
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MUSKET Middlesex University Skills & Education Planning Tool. Business Information Systems Department School of Engineering & Information Sciences. Project Members. Balbir Barn Associate Dean – grant holder Geetha Abeysinghe / George Dafoulas Principal Lecturers – project managers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MUSKETMiddlesex University Skills & Education Planning Tool
Business Information Systems DepartmentSchool of Engineering & Information Sciences
Project Members
Balbir Barn Associate Dean – grant holder
Geetha Abeysinghe / George Dafoulas Principal Lecturers – project managers
Yongjun Zheng / Vikram Beedasy Research Associates – project officers
The ProjectJISC - Institutional innovation projects in lifelong
learning and workforce development
Assist employers in accrediting their in-house training with universities through work-based learning.
Help universities and students to compare courses from two different educational institutions for credit transfer by finding the % similarity between courses.
Transformation processes supported
Submit a course
Enquiries
Course Advisor
Course providers
Employers, prospective applicants
MUSKET tool
XCRI translation Cohesive reply
based on the KB and the XML DB
Employers
Advise to employers about course opportunities,
professional accreditation, CPD, and course route
planning
The MUSKET Tool
Transform Tool
Consists of 2 main tools:
Semantic Tool
To find the % similarity between module description
documents
To convert Word documents into
XCRI format
Transform Tool - Word Conversion
Univ of Cardiff Word Documents XCRI File
Why have Transformation tool?
Not all institutions are ready to submit their course information database for mapping to XCRI.
Not all institutions have a course database, e.g companies having in-house training courses have their descriptions in word documents
Time consuming to carry out the repetitive task of converting each module document into XCRI
Transform Tool
Transform Tool - Processes
Keyword Selection
1. Selected Keywords appear here.
2. Click Next to view Keywords and Contents and to map to XCRI fields
Assigning the XCRI fields to selected Keywords
Semantic Tool
• The tool will compare the % semantic similarity between courses or modules
• Musket semantic tool will read the XCRI file ( using Xml 2 OWL application), and output the different owl files of each course.
Semantic Tool - Architecture
Semantic Tool
Similarity Results
1. Similarity value without the dictionary of items
2. Similarity based on the dictionary appears here.
Technologies
XML (for interchange of data and meta-data)
UML (for understanding the document structures and concepts)
OWL (Semantic Web Technology)
Java