Simon Grant

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I study, research and develop towards a better world, currently outside the academic environment, but perhaps with a branch of the Co-operative University in England in the future. Find me as "asimong" anywhere.
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Electronic Portfolios: Personal information, personal development and personal values

Papers by Simon Grant

A Data Model for Describing and Exchanging Personal Achieved Learning Outcomes (PALO)

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, 2010

Employers seek people that match particular qualifications and graduates seek jobs that match the... more Employers seek people that match particular qualifications and graduates seek jobs that match their qualifications. This market is currently managed primarily using paper certificates and heterogeneous university management systems that capture achieved learning outcomes as well as corporate information systems that capture required qualifications. In light of trends toward increased student mobility, employability and lifelong learning, this situation is less than satisfactory. Therefore, in this paper, the authors propose a schema that facilitates interoperable storage and management of Personal Achieved Learning Outcomes (PALO) based on a common data model. This paper presents use case scenarios and implementations addressing these challenges and demonstrating the added value of using such a common model.

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Patterns of ruliness in HCI

Electronic Portfolios: personal information, personal development and personal values

Introduction. Part 1 Principles of e-portfolio systems: Some scenarios of e-portfolio use Who wan... more Introduction. Part 1 Principles of e-portfolio systems: Some scenarios of e-portfolio use Who wants personal information? The rationale behind recording and storing personal information Portfolio purposes outlined Portfolio information Issues with portfolio information The need for common terms in portfolio information Portfolio functionality Applying e-portfolio principles. Part 2 How to do things with e-portfolio and related tools: How to use tools for assessment How to use tools for recording significant personal information How to use tools for self-presentation How to use tools provided for your own development How to motivate and help others to use tools How to develop e-portfolio tools How to coordinate e-portfolio and administrative tools How to develop interoperability in tools How to publish terms for common use by tools. Part 3 Future vision: Notes on portfolio environments and values Matching information for people Personal values, identity and personality Developing personality and personal values Ethical development and values in society The culture of information and choice: an analogy with the development of agriculture In conclusion?

Cognitive architecture for modelling human error in complex dynamic tasks

La littérature traitant des interactions homme-machine et des activités dans les systèmes complex... more La littérature traitant des interactions homme-machine et des activités dans les systèmes complexes et dynamiques à haut niveau de technologie, relevant de l'ingénierie cognitive, témoigne d'une substantielle discussion sur la notion d'erreur et de modélisation cognitive. Une raison à cela est que de bons modèles cognitifs pourraient être utiles à la conception de systèmes reconnaissant les erreurs, ou réduisant leur probabilité d'apparition. Ces modèles pourraient être utiles

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European Learner Mobility Standardization: Sketching The Landscape

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The enhancement of learner mobility and employability is undoubtedly a high priority action item ... more

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A model for skills and competences and its application in the agricultural sector

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Integrated Web-based support for learning employability skills

Educational Technology Society, 2000

Learners of employability skills have four needs: awareness of employers' skill requirements; kno... more Learners of employability skills have four needs: awareness of employers' skill requirements; knowledge of their own levels of skill achievement; the ability to provide evidence for these achievements; and help with the process of action planning. The perceptions of students who had engaged in the process of recording achievement and action planning prior to entering higher education confirms the need for support for this process. LUSID is a Web-based system for learners to record experiences and achievements, analyse them in terms of employability skills, and carry out related action planning. It uses a detailed characterisation of skills which helps to explain what is needed by the learners, and to guide them through the recording, audit and planning processes. LUSID's features address the identified needs in several ways, as well as providing a sound basis for further developments including closer access to employers' skill requirements, on-line testing of skills where realistic, and perhaps integration with recruitment through employers using an adapted system to input job requirements.

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Enhancing European Learner Mobility, broadening European pathways: the metadata standards approach

International Journal of Metadata Semantics and Ontologies, 2010

... Cleo Sgouropoulou* ... Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Sgouropoulou, C. an... more ... Cleo Sgouropoulou* ... Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Sgouropoulou, C. and Grant, S. (2010) &amp;#x27;Enhancing European Learner Mobility, broadening European pathways: the metadata standards approach&amp;#x27;, Int. J. Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 5, No. ...

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Learners of employability skills have four needs: awareness of employers' skill requirements;... more Learners of employability skills have four needs: awareness of employers' skill requirements; knowledge of their own levels of skill achievement; the ability to provide evidence for these achievements; and help with the process of action planning. The perceptions of students who had engaged in the process of recording achievement and action planning prior to entering higher education confirms the need

A Model for Skills and Competences and Its Application in the Agricultural Sector

Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011

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Apoio integrado baseado na web para aprendizagem de habilidades de empregabilidade

The Liverpool Universal Student Interactive Database (LUSID): A Web-Based System for Recording Achievements in Higher Education

Implementation of a portable skills framework

ABSTRACT In this paper we describe a meta-framework for the representation of skills. That is, a ... more ABSTRACT In this paper we describe a meta-framework for the representation of skills. That is, a framework in which differ-ent actual skills frameworks may be built. Our meta-framework provides the essential elements of structure which enable particular skills framework instances to be able to be related to each other. We explain the concepts of Competencies and Educational Objectives and how they can be used to foster interoperability between electronic systems. We also introduce the concept of Facets which serve to define ranges with a particular skill.

What is a level of competence?

Development Issues for PDP with ePortfolios: Web Services and Skills

Enhancing European Learner Mobility, broadening European pathways: the metadata standards approach

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2010

Concepts and Standardization in Areas Relating to Competence

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, 2000

This paper reviews terminology, motivation, history and current work in areas relating to skill o... more This paper reviews terminology, motivation, history and current work in areas relating to skill or competence. Many useful services, clarifying pathways within and from education to employment, self-assessment, and selection would be facilitated by better standardization of the format in which related definitions are represented, and also by a standard approach to representing the structured sets often called frameworks. To be effective, information models underlying interoperability specifications must be based on common conceptual models; the authors propose one such model as a work in progress. The authors see the way forward as reaching greater consensus about the components of competence, including intended learning outcomes, agreement on a model for frameworks allowing reuse of and comparison between components in and between frameworks, and investigation of how requirements and claims for skill and competence can be coordinated in the light of common practice in recruitment.

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The Role of e-Portfolios in Formative and Summative Assessment: Report of the JISC-funded Study

… study, Centre for …, 2009

The study encompassed a landscape scan of existing practice in UK HE (including HE in FE), and th... more

Electronic Portfolios: Personal information, personal development and personal values

A Data Model for Describing and Exchanging Personal Achieved Learning Outcomes (PALO)

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, 2010

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Patterns of ruliness in HCI

Electronic Portfolios: personal information, personal development and personal values