Abstract:

The purpose of the Bologna Reform is the comparability of study programs. For this reason, the Bologna Reform challenges higher education institutions to align or build up their study programs, the study courses in there, the learning units therein, and the formats in which the courses are produced, in a competence-oriented manner in the future. The study courses are presented in different formats. Increasingly in so-called Learning Management Systems (LMS), through which students can access the study material and learning units for each study course. This causes an interaction between the student and the LMS. This interaction provides different learning data, which can be measured, stored, and analyzed. To be able to compare the resulting learning success and the acquired competencies in the courses, the corresponding learning data and results need to be recorded digitally at the course level in various study formats such as game-based learning formats or traditional formats. Therefore, the already existing and newly acquired competencies need to be stored and represented for every single student.

This paper aims to further develop and implement the Qualification-based Learning Model (QBLM) according to Wallenborn and Then at the University of Hagen (FUH). In this paper, the concept for the so-called Competence and Qualification Profiles (CQPs) will be described. A CQP of a learner contains a profile with the already acquired Competencies and Qualifications (CQs) and a second profile in which the target CQs and the corresponding Learning Goals (LG) can be stored. For this purpose, the paper presents the corresponding use cases of CQPs, as well as the concept for integrating CQPs into the current software architecture. For this purpose, the already existing QBL4Moodle plugin, which offers the possibility to work with QBLM-based CQPs in the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, will be extended accordingly. The concept section also explains which interfaces are to be implemented for reading and writing in CQPs.

The paper presents the conceptual considerations and the overall concept for our research goals. Furthermore, the proof-of-concept (PoC) implementation of the above-mentioned systems and the evaluation are presented. The paper concludes with a summary and the remaining challenges of the approach.

Keywords:

Qualifications-Based Learning, QBL, QBLM, Competence-Based Learning, Competence Profiles, Higher Educational Institutions, HEI.