1) InLOC is a new competence structure standard that could motivate increased use of e-portfolios by providing common definitions for skills and competencies. 2) If frameworks are published using standard InLOC formats with URIs, tools could be built to use those common definitions, employers could use InLOC tools for recruitment, and job seekers could use portfolios to showcase their skills. 3) This could create a virtuous cycle where increased use of InLOC motivates more development and adoption of InLOC frameworks and tools.

1. 1
InLOC: a competence
structure standard to
inject new motivation
for portfolios
Simon Grant, CETIS
at the ePIC conference, London
2013-06-09

2. 2
The paper abstract is about...
 people using tools when they are motivated
 employment: the big motivator
 gap in e-portfolio use for practical recruitment
 InLOC – the new competence structure standard
 “integrating learning outcomes and competences”
 and something that could be a virtuous cycle:
 frameworks published with URIs in standard InLOC format
 tools are built to use common definitions and frameworks
 employers use InLOC tools for recruitment
 users use InLOC tools for job-seeking
 portfolios reawakened to showcase shortlisted individuals
 more motivation for InLOC frameworks and tools

3. What is InLOC?
 a European expert project that finished earlier this year
 drawing on earlier work including “InteropAbility”
 InLOC specifies a particular way of expressing any
structure (often “framework”) of skills, competence, etc.
 an “information model” with standard formats
 that can be processed freely and easily by software
 together with URIs for each part of the structure
 structures initially represented in XML
 also potentially in JSON and RDF
 specifications and other information available at
 http://wiki.teria.no/display/inloc/Home

4. InLOC features
 distinguishes structures and definitions
 structures: like frameworks, relating a set of …
 definitions: separate skills, knowledge items, competences
 definitions can occur in different structures
 structures can take any form, and be of any depth
 clear and principled treatment of levels
 both defining levels and attributing levels
 can easily represent multilingual information
 scope for all the most relevant educational metadata
 single structure for all relationships and compound
attributes with easy mapping to RDF (linked data)

5. e.g. the European e-Competence
Framework (e-CF)
 look at the PDF
 the structure is the framework as a whole
 the definitions are every piece of text setting out
something that people could know or do
 available from http://www.ecompetences.eu/
 for an explanation of how to represent it in InLOC
 http://purl.org/net/inloc/InLOC+explained+through+example
 the InLOC XML for the e-CF is available
 from http://wiki.teria.no/display/inloc/XML
 http://wiki.teria.no/download/attachments/24315835/e-CF_V2.xml

6. But today's presentation is...
 an start to illustrating the complex web of factors that
seem to underlie the future success of InLOC
 complex diagram, built up slowly
 shows a plausible analysis of the virtuous circle
 we'll walk along the main tracks of the diagram
 please come back to it if you are interested!
 right now...

13. What needs to be done
 persuade authorities to publish frameworks as InLOC
 win the argument for policy and principle first
 build tools to help authorities build InLOC structures
 get portfolio (and other) tools to use InLOC information
 get employers to use recruitment services that
 use common terms and InLOC frameworks
 start with matching services delivering short lists
 link through to detailed portfolios as and when wanted
 then we hope to sit back and watch as portfolio usage
grows!

14. Thanks!
 thanks for your attention
 I'm happy to advise or consider being involved in any
projects that could use InLOC, and can also recommend
other colleagues
 questions?
asimong@gmail.com
@asimong