Admissions:
Agile methodology: Highly interactive and flexible management method with short-termed delivery cycles (sprints), agile requirements, dynamic team culture, less restrictive project control and emphasis on real-time communication
Authentication: The process of determining whether someone is who it declares itself to be
Strong authentication:
Competence : Ability to apply learning outcomes adequately in a defined context (education, work, personal or professional development)
Competence mapping: Identifies an individual's strengths and weaknesses. The aim is to enable the person to better understand himself or herself and to point out where career development efforts need to be directed.
Competence profile: Users can form a competence profile including previous education, strengths, skills and competences, work experience and future ambitions in education and working life. When the learner develops a new skill formally or informally, they or the system can suggest adding it to their profile. With an up-to-date competence profile, the user can see and compare educational opportunities matching with their competence needs and interests.
CompLeap: A two-year project funded by the European Union, which aims to create solutions to improve the matching of supply and demand of competence. It draws its name from the words “Competence Leap”. Through the service, the user can map their competence and build their own personal competence profile.
CSC: IT Center for Science
Decision makers: Decide if CompLeap have to be used as an facilitating tooling for end-users
Deployment: All of the activities that make a software system available for use
Digitalization: The integration of digital technologies into everyday life
DUO: Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs, the host of the national Diploma Register in the Netherlands
Ecosystem: A distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with properties of self-organisation, scalability and sustainability
Education comparison: Closest matches of between user's profile and education descriptions are presented to the user in ranking starting from the closest one to the less closer etc.. User can mark some recommendations as favorites and this way generate more suitable suggestion.
Education gap: The education the learner already has comparing to current competencies and the education learner should have by comparing to the target competencies. The education gap is the difference between the current and target educations.
Education mapping:
Education recommendation: Calculated and based on similarity of content between user's profile data and education descriptions
EDUFI: Finnish National Agency for Education, a national development agency. It is responsible for developing education and training, early childhood education and care and lifelong learning, as well as for promoting internationalisation. EDUFI is subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Culture and its tasks and organisation are set in the legislation.
End-user: A person who are going to use the CompLeap Framework
ePerusteet = eRequirements: A service that contains qualification requirements for the vocational qualifications for which an authorisation to provide education in English has been granted.
ESCO: A multi-lingual Classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
Europass: Portfolio of five documents helping citizens to better communicate their skills and qualifications when applying for job or study in Europe.
Facilitating users: Help the end-users and supports CompLeap
Formal learning: Learning that occurs in an organised and structured environment (such as in an education or training institution or on the job).
Framework:
Guidance: A continuous process that enables individuals to identify their capacities, skills and interests, through a range of individual and collective activities to make educational, training and occupational decisions and to manage their individual life paths in learning, work and other settings in which those capacities and skills are learned or used
Informal learning: Learning resulting from daily activities related to work, family or leisure. It is not organised or structured in terms of objectives, time or learning support.
Interest: Activities that one enjoys doing and the subjects that one likes to spend time learning about
Interested parties: Interested or involved in supporting Lifelong Learning
Interoperability : Ability of organisations to interact towards mutually beneficial goals, involving the sharing of information and knowledge between these organisations, through the business processes they support, by means of the exchange of data between their ICT systems.
Technical interoperability: means the ability of information and communication technology systems to interact so as to enable the sharing of information, achieved through agreement by all parties and owners of the information
Job market: The number of jobs that are available in a particular place or for a particular type of work
KOSKI: The Finnish national study register comprising educational data on all Finnish students as well as exchange students in Finland and vocational student
Learner: Any citizen of EU, a role in CompLeap project
Learner-centered: Aims to develop learner autonomy and independence by putting responsibility for the learning path in the hands of students by imparting them with skills and basis on how to learn a specific subject and schemata required to measure up to the specific performance requirement. Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and practices that enable lifelong learning and independent problem-solving.
Learner path: Personal services for users to map competences throughout their life; includes a Competence Profile, which ties together user competences, skills and interests, with possibilities of guidance and comparing existing education opportunities
Learning analytics: An emergent discipline to measure, collect, analyze, and report data about learners and their contexts
Lifelong learning: All learning activities undertaken throughout life, which result in improving knowledge, knowhow, skills, competences and/or qualifications for personal, social and/or professional reasons
Mock-up prototype: Visual screenshots of the modules for testing a concept
Modules:
Module 1: Local study record service integration presents data from a person's previous studies. This data is in the form of compulsory education, upper secondary education grades and/or prior completed studies.
Module 2: Competence profile based on personal interest and existing competences is implemented
Module 3: Suggestions for educational opportunities;the learner is offered suitable education opportunities to supplement their competence through analytics based on their educational background, other competencies and interests
Mydata: xxx The main idea is to put the individual in control of their own educational data and empower them to develop skills and competences step-by-step through digitalised, personalised learner path.
NEET: Not in Education, Employment, or Training
Neural networks: A set of algorithms that are designed to recognize patterns
Non-verified education: No authoritative repository of study records
Open badges: Digital certificate that is visual and secure and earner can share it online
Open source: Software that uses an open development process and is licensed to include the source code
PM: Person-month, metric for expressing the effort (amount of time).
Project road map: A master page of the Compleap project and all relevant pages with further details and steps are linked there so that the page creates a holistic view of the project as a whole. It will be constantly updated.
Prototype: An early model of a product built to test a process
PoC, Proof of Concept: A demonstration, the purpose of which is to verify that certain concepts or theories have the potential for real-world application. POC is therefore a prototype that is designed to determine feasibility, but does not represent deliverable.
Python: An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language
Qualification: Formal outcome (certificate, diploma or title) of an assessment process which is obtained when a competent body determines that an individual has achieved learning outcomes to given standards and/or possesses the necessary competence to do a job in a specific area of work. A qualification confers official recognition of the value of learning outcomes in the labour market and in education and training. A qualification can be a legal entitlement to practise a trade.
R: A programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphic
Service Design methodology: Requires methods and tools to control new elements of the design process, such as the time and the interaction between actors. Is chosen in this project to ensure that the service experience meets the end-user needs as well as service provider business goals.
Skill: Ability to apply knowledge and use know-how to compete tasks and solve problems
Skill gap: Situation where an individual does not have the level of skills required to perform her or his job adequately. Skill gaps can be analysed at individual level (using a skills audit), at company/sector level, or at regional, national or international levels. Skill gaps can be linked to an insufficient level of qualification; they may also refer to situations where the workforce has the right level of qualification but lacks specific types of skills (such as management skills) or experience required to perform a task or a job adequately
Skills and competence mismatch: A current situation where individual's skills don't match competence supply and labour market needs which doesn't serve individual citizens, employers or decision-makers.
Stakeholders: A person, group, or organization with an interest in a project; Stakeholders of the CompLeap project could be divided in four different kind of stakeholders: 1. End users 2. Facilitating users 3. Decision makers
Studyinfo.fi = Opintopolku: Studyinfo.fi is the official and up-to-date website with all the information about study programmes leading to a degree in Finland
Value Streams: Represent the series of steps that an organization uses to build Solutions that provide a continuous flow of value to a customer
Verified education: Authoritative repository of study records that contains information about learners’ prior education is required
VET: Vocational Education and Training
Waterfall project methodology: A project is completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumer
Word embeddings: Techniques which uses multidimensional floating point vectors to represent words where semantically and syntactically similar words are close together in geometric space. For every word in models corpus, there is exactly one vector. This approach should help learner to realise new areas where one’s competences and interests could be combined in a new way.
WP: Work package (WP1: Project Management, WP2: Requirements and architecture design, WP3: Prototype development, WP4: Deployment and evaluation, WP5: Dissemination, communication and exploitation)