Some links for the SPWS project

Simon Grant - 2004-11-09
links revised 2006-03-02

Main SPWS website
JISC work

Cross-subject classification schemes

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/jacs/jacs.htm

subject classification suitable for FE/HE; c. 1300 entries

http://www.nc.uk.net/home.html

UK National Curriculum

http://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/provider/standardsandclassifications/classpage/

LDCS: the LearnDirect Classification System

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/

Dewey Decimal introduction

http://www.udcc.org/

Universal Decimal

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/forgotten_forefather_paul_otlet.php

Article about Paul Otlet and the concepts behind the UDC system.

http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/bca/bchist.htm

Bliss, which has particular interest for medicine.

Facets and faceted classification

http://www.kmconnection.com/DOC100100.htm

http://www.archivists.org/glossary/term_details.asp?DefinitionKey=723

http://www.iawiki.net/FacetedClassification

http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html

Metadata and interoperability specifications

http://www.imsglobal.org/competencies/

IMS RDCEO specification

http://www.cetis.ac.uk/profiles/uklomcore

UK LOM core as maintained by CETIS (only doc, not html)

http://www.imsglobal.org/vdex/

IMS Vocabulary Definition Exchange (VDEX) specification

http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/

IMS Learning Resource Metadata specification

http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/

IEEE LOM

General and medical skills

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/

QAA site on subject benchmarks.

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/health/

QAA subject benchmarks for health subjects.

http://www.scottishdoctor.org/node.asp?id=tdg

Scottish Doctors work on representing skills.

http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/tomorrows_doctors.asp

Tomorrow's Doctors

http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/

The Skills for Health database contains a vast array of detailed performance criteria and range in the medical profession.

Medical classification

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

Medical Subject Headings (USA National Library of Medicine)

http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/bca/Guides/H.htm

Bliss as applied to human biology.

Leeds medical school

Not http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/

University of Leeds Medical School: this doesn't give course details.

http://www.med.leeds.ac.uk/cdb/

Leeds Medweb: this is where the details are.

General and older links

http://lusid.liv.ac.uk/public/papers/SkillPaper.html

Paper on the LUSID approach, 1999

http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber15/deseco/

DeSeCo stands for "Definition and Selection of Competencies: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations". It is an OECD project. There used to be, of particular relevance, a paper of "Additional expert opinions", the third part of which was "Key skills/key competencies - avoiding the pitfalls of current initiatives (Tim Oates)". This exposed some of the theoretical weaknesses behind common lists of key skills or competencies. However it appears to be no longer on the site.

http://www.open.ac.uk/cobe/publications.htm

The Open University's Centre for Outcomes-Based Education has interesting material. Look down the list to "Key Skills". http://www.open.ac.uk/keyskills is also a link.

http://www.conferenceboard.ca/education/learning-tools/employability-skills.htm

The Conference Board of Canada makes a bold attempt to define what employability skills are.

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/keyskills/

DfES pointers.

http://www.qca.org.uk/qualifications/types/603.html

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority section on Key Skills.

http://www.seec-office.org.uk/resources.htm

Southern England Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer: see Credit Level Descriptors document.

http://www.europsych.org/framework/v5/

A European Framework for Psychologists' Training

http://www.osportfolio.org/

The Open Source Portfolio Initiative

http://www.basic-skills.co.uk/

The Basic Skills Agency

Assessment types

http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/definiti.htm

http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/mathsci/MS5_2AS1.HTM

http://www.iml.uts.edu.au/assessment/types/

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/2_learntch/types.html