Facets of Curriculum Modelling Mike Collett EDRENE Conference

Facets of Curriculum Modelling Mike Collett EDRENE Conference Den 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 parts map between curricula additional information in user interface

England National Curriculum been through several cycles Online set of vocabularies

England National Curriculum Not a single structure A single set of “tagging terms” Programmes of study (objectives) Schemes of work Other 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 search Tagged 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 professionals Over 20, 000 documents Re-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 query Re-used many of the National Curriculum vocabs Archived site

National Strategies - Vocabularies Stages of education – Phase (Early Years, Primary and Secondary), Key Stage, School Year Curriculum subject and subject specifiers Role or Audience Educational topic – a dumping ground Navigation hierarchies for box navigation

Box Navigation

Faceted navigation

Work cycle

Where are the facets? metadata properties as 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. com http: //www. schemeta. com http: //kennisnet. lexaurus. net http: //culturegrid. lexaurus. net http: //k-int. com/products/lexaurusbank http: //europeanschoolnet-vbe. lexaurus. net