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CompLeap approaches competence development as a lifelong process. Lifelong learning enhances individuals adaptability and flexibility to train and retrain, enabling individuals to answer to changing labor market needs. CompLeap builds a learner-centered ecosystem of digital services around the development of skills and competences to better match competence supply and demand. This serves individual citizens, employers and decision-makers.
The CompLeap framework forms a platform for a flow of modular services for competence development. Our conceptual framework will support the creation, evolution and implementation of a structured, digitalized lifelong learner pathway integrating competence mapping, comparing education offer, labour market needs and learning analytics. To find an optimal solution for competence development, we focus on the needs of diverse groups, such as NEETs, migrants and those who change jobs.
The main benefits for utilising the CompLeap Framework Architecture:
Enterprise Architecture as a Method
Enterprise architecture (EA) is has been used as the planning method to create the CompLeap framework architecture design for lifelong competence development. The objective of the EA work is to improve interoperability of activities and services of public administration and private organizations. EA is a structure that defines an entity consisting of activities, processes, services, data and information systems as well as the services produced by them. The EA method is a systematic working method and procedure for identifying, analyzing, planning and describing elements of a given entity and their interdependencies. Thus, it realizes interoperability in all architecture levels from contextual level to implementation.
The CompLeap Learner Path Prototype aims to link the processes of competence mapping and educational opportunity comparison together into one fluid personalized process, using data from both the learners themselves and national data registries. Data is collected on user interests and competencies and visualized for user guidance.
CompLeap thinking has evolved around the idea of having a lifelong Competence Profile, where information on past studies can be collected from existing data sources, and relevant competence development options can be suggested to the user. A prototype version of this type of a profile has been developed and tested in the CompLeap project, it operates in the Finnish context and utilizes datasources maintained by the Finnish National Agency for Education.
Users can form a competence profile including previous education from a National database, and include their own interests. From this data, combined with up-to-date course catalogue or study opportunity information, relevant study recommendations can be created using natural language processing.
With an up-to-date competence profile, the user can see and compare educational opportunities matching with their competence needs and interests.
Interested in how it works?
The prototype could also utilize other, pre-existing national and Europe-wide registries and services to provide the learner with an up-to-date selection of educational opportunities. The open source code and technical documentation is available at Github.
What is the use of this for educators?
The system would let educators know more about user needs – what kind of options their students or learners could have planned for their future. With local data sources it would benefit guidance situations, as the information moves with the learner and is not spread around in different systems.