ICOPER (Interoperable Content for Performance in a Competency-driven Society)

Posted Thu, 02/10/2008 - 11:55 by rkc

 
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type of project: 
European project
project start: 
1 Sep 2008
project end: 
28 Feb 2011

Higher education institutions and continuing education centres face a growing number of challenges in delivering competency-driven educational content with their learning services. The current lack of widely accepted standards and their adoption hinders the effective implementation of learning technologies.

ICOPER will access more than 12,500 hours of integrated educational content. The project will analyze the implementation of existing specifications such as IMS RCDEO, IMS LD, SQI, and QTI. ICOPER’s underlying educational framework will guide a consensus building approach to developing Best Practices, addressing issues such as

  • exchange of competency models and learning outcomes
  • collaboration around learning designs
  • integration of content via federated search and harvesting
  • reuse of instructional models and content in learning deliver environments
  • interoperability of item banks for assessment and evaluation.

 

 

 

ICOPER will provide mechanisms to ensure European-wide user involvement, cooperation, and adoption of standards within a large community to support all phases of standardization.

Product(s): 

The main project results are:

  • The ICOPER reference model forms the theoretical background of the project. The model consists of standards along the value-chain of the learning process (instructional modelling, content authoring, learning delivery, assessment, evaluation).
  • The ICOPER Open Content Space will provide a single access point to all included content repositories and serve as entry point for all associated community activities and tools.
  • The ICOPER Institute for Training and Consulting will be an important instrument for Europeanwide consensus building on the adoption and promotion of specifications and standards across Europe through training measures and consulting.
contact name: 
Roland Klemke
contact email: 
roland.klemke@ou.nl
Collaboration partners/project team: 

The ICOPER consortium consists of 23 partners across Europe:

 

  • Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
  • UK Open University
  • University of Cyprus
  • University of Leicester
  • Open University of the Netherlands
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • IMC AG
  • Tallinn University - Centre for Educational Technology
  • Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris – HEC
  • Jozef Stefan Institute
  • NCSR Demokritos
  • Institut National des Télécommunications
  • University of Vienna
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • AGH University of Science and Technology
  • Kaunas University of Technology
  • Knowledge Markets Consulting GesmbH
  • Oslo University College
  • Synergetics nv
  • GiuntiLabs
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Umeå University - Department of Interactive Media and Learning
  • Humance AG
CELSTEC-contributions: 

CELSTEC's contributions to ICOPER are:

  • providing access to OpenER
  • provding expertise about IMS Learning Design and other related standards
  • providing know how and resources for technical integration of tools
Financing: 

ICOPER is a EU-funded project (eContentPlus programme).

Links: 

Project Homepage: http://www.icoper.org/