1、BSI Standards PublicationBS EN 15981:2011European Learner Mobility Achievement information (EuroLMAI)Incorporating corrigendum May 2013BS EN 15981:2011National forewordThis British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 15981:2011, incorporating corrigendum May 2013.The start and finish of text int
2、roduced or altered by corrigendum is indicated in the text by tags. Text altered by CEN corrigendum May 2013 is indicated in the text by .The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IST/43, Information technology for learning, education and training.A list of organiz
3、ations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. The British Standards Institution 2013. Published by BSI Standards Limited 2013
4、ISBN 978 0 580 83143 0 ICS 35.240.99 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 June 2011.Amendments/corrigenda issued since publicationDate Text affecte
5、d31 July 2013 Implementation of CEN corrigendum May 2013BRITISH STANDARDEUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN 15981 May 2011 ICS 35.240.99 English Version European Learner Mobility - Achievement information (EuroLMAI) Mobilit des apprenants europens - Informations relatives aux rsulta
6、ts obtenus (EuroLMAI) Europisches Model fr Lernermobilitt - Angaben ber die Leistung (EuroLMAI) This European Standard was approved by CEN on 24 March 2011. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the
7、status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French
8、, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, C
9、roatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDA
10、RDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2011 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 15981:2011: EIncorporating corrigendum May 20132 Cont
11、ents Page Foreword . 4Introduction . 51 Scope 72 Normative references 83 Terms and definitions . 94 Symbols and abbreviated terms 125 Conventions . 146 Conformance 156.1 Conforming instances . 156.2 Conforming bindings 156.3 Conforming applications 157 European Learner Mobility Achievement Informati
12、on Model . 167.1 General . 167.2 Domain model 167.3 EuroLMAI Resources 177.3.1 Classes . 177.3.2 Association properties 187.3.3 Attribute properties . 187.4 Resources included from CWA 15903:2008 . 197.4.1 Classes . 197.4.2 Association properties 197.4.3 Attribute properties . 207.5 Properties inclu
13、ded from ISO 15836 207.6 Properties included from DCMI Metadata Terms . 207.7 Properties included from IETF RFC 2426 207.8 Properties included from the CWA 16077:2010 208 The EuroLMAI Description Set Profile 218.1 General . 218.2 EuroLMAI Report . 218.3 Learner 218.4 Issuer 218.5 Learning Opportunit
14、y Specification 228.6 Learning Opportunity Instance 228.7 Qualification . 238.8 Credit 23Annex A (normative) Europass Diploma Supplement Application Profile of the EuroLMAI (EuroLMAI Europass DS AP) 24A.1 General . 24A.2 Europass DS Refinements of the EuroLMAI . 24A.2.1 Classes . 24A.2.2 Association
15、 properties 24A.2.3 Attribute Properties . 24A.3 The Europass DS Description Set Profile . 26A.3.1 General . 26A.3.2 Diploma Supplement Document 26A.3.3 Learner 26A.3.4 Issuer 26BS EN 15981:2011 EN 15981:2011 (E)3 A.3.5 Learning Opportunity Specification: Programme Level 27A.3.6 Learning Opportunity
16、 Instance: Programme Level 27A.3.7 Learning Opportunity Specification: Transcript Level 28A.3.8 Learning Opportunity Instance: Transcript Level 29A.3.9 Qualification . 29A.3.10 Credit 30Annex B (informative) The EuroLMAI conceptual model 31Annex C (informative) Mapping of the Europass DS to EuroLMAI
17、 33Annex D (informative) Illustrative uses of the EuroLMAI Model and the Europass DS Application Profile . 36D.1 General . 36D.2 Report on completed parts of a programme of study . 36D.3 Transcript information for a period of learning 37D.4 Report on qualification obtained for a completed programme
18、of study . 39D.5 EuroLMAI Europass DS document 39Annex E (informative) Application Profiling . 41E.1 DCMI Abstract Model 41E.2 Application Profiles and their roles and usage 41E.3 Extensions to properties 41E.4 Graceful degradation 42Bibliography 43BS EN 15981:2011 EN 15981:2011 (E)4 Foreword This d
19、ocument (EN 15981:2011) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 353 “Information and Communication Technologies for Learning, Education and Training”, the secretariat of which is held by UNI. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
20、 identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by November 2011, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by November 2011. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not
21、be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. The European Learner Mobility Achievement Information Model (EuroLMAI) addresses the identified need for a harmonized solution to the recording and exchange of learner mobility information within the European Education Area. The resu
22、lts of this work will contribute to the effort towards interoperable European-wide IT systems that manage and exchange learner achievement information. The “European Learner Mobility“ Working Item was initiated by the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT), Greece. The development of the p
23、roposed model has been carried out within the context of the CEN WS-LT project on “Guidelines for a European Learner Mobility Model“, funded under the 2008 ICT Standardization Work Programme. The project was initiated and led by the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT) and the Technologi
24、cal Educational Institute of Athens (Greece). The document has been developed through the collaboration of a number of contributing partners, representing a wide mix of interests, among others JISC-CETIS (UK), Hypatia AS (Norway), KION (Italy), the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), University
25、 of Duisburg Essen/eLC (Germany), USIT/UiO (Norway), Digitary (Ireland), University of Vigo (Spain), ISFOL (Italy), Alan Paull Services (UK).The close collaboration and substantial support of the Rome Student Systems and Standards Group of software implementers regarding the European Leaner Mobility
26、 (EuroLM) standardization efforts is highly acknowledged. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, F
27、inland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. BS EN 15981:2011 EN 15981:2011 (E)5 Introduction The establishment of Europa
28、ss as a common framework which is accepted throughout Europe demonstrates that European education has reached a maturity stage where the demand for the recording and exchange of learner mobility information needs to be efficiently supported by technical interoperability standards. At the initiation
29、point of this Working Item several relevant standardization efforts were identified and significant national expertise had already been accumulated. However, harmonization was deemed necessary towards a European solution, in order to provide viable support for emerging European student management in
30、formation systems and dissuade service providers from developing proprietary services and platforms. The results of the current and future European Learner Mobility (EuroLM) work aspire to support the development of a new generation of technology-enhanced services for learners (learning and employme
31、nt opportunities exploration), higher education institutions (certification or augmentation of learner information), employers (work-place descriptions, recruiting and development of learners competences) and other stakeholders of learning, education, and training throughout Europe, as the European
32、Union and Commission, the Member States and their governments and ministries, etc. The EuroLM Achievement Information (EuroLMAI) model directly addresses the European requirement for rapid implementation and dissemination of the institution-owned transparency information tools throughout Europe. It
33、has been developed as a generic model for representing the institution attested achievements of a learner within a formal learning setting, resulting from the learners participation in one or more learning opportunity instances and including any available associated results. This European Standard s
34、pecifies a subset (skeleton) of the generic EuroLMAI model that supports the expression of institution-owned learner achievement information and the formation of official achievement reports (e.g. the learners Transcript of records) and transparency documents (e.g. Europass Diploma Supplement). The
35、need for supporting of additional learner mobility achievement structures and tools (e.g. that of Europass Mobility) calls for the enhancement of the skeleton model with additional standardized information entities (e.g. intended learning outcomes, assessment processes) and relevant standardization
36、activities are underway in order to provide other important extensions to EuroLMAI. In addition to EuroLMAI, this European Standard provides an Application Profile of the EuroLMAI model, introducing necessary refinements and constraints for the accurate representation of the Europass Diploma Supplem
37、ent (DS). The Europass DS is considered one of the most important documents of the Europass framework, which significantly contributes to the transparent interpretation and recognition of academic and professional qualifications (diplomas, degrees, certificates) across the diverse European education
38、al systems. In essence, the Europass DS aims at: promoting transparency within and between higher education systems; providing accurate and up-to-date information on an individuals qualifications; aiding mobility and access to further study and employment abroad; providing fair and informed informat
39、ion relating to qualifications; BS EN 15981:2011 EN 15981:2011 (E)6 facilitating academic and professional recognition and thus increasing the transparency of qualifications. The Europass DS constitutes an instrument upon which a high level of agreement on the content and structure has been achieved
40、 among the EU member states. The European countries have taken up the DS initiative and have specified their national variants, in most cases being minor variations of the Europass DS. However, currently the DS is mostly issued in paper-based format. In cases where it is issued electronically, the D
41、S is represented in a proprietary manner. A major problem has been the lack of interoperable tools, impeding the recording and/or reuse of data in existing student management systems for the production of an electronic DS and the exchange of information among interested parties. The EuroLMAI model a
42、nd its Europass DS Application Profile have been developed as: a lightweight standard taking into consideration existing and emerging educational practice processes and the relevant European policies; an easy-to-implement standard in order to ensure a rapid uptake by stakeholders of learning, educat
43、ion and training throughout Europe (higher education institutions, learners, employers, service providers, etc.) BS EN 15981:2011 EN 15981:2011 (E)7 1 Scope This European Standard specifies a model for the recording and exchange of learner achievement information among student management information
44、 systems, as well as the aggregation of information by third party suppliers. The model proposed within this European Standard is not intended to define the representation of the entire spectrum of Learner Mobility information - the scope of the standard is restricted to the definition of the electr
45、onic representation of official, institutionally attested achievement information for learners engaged in formal learning processes, in order to facilitate its recording and subsequent exchange within the European education area. Achievement Information structured and presented in compliance with th
46、is standard may, of course, be used for other purposes - for instance, to provide descriptions of achievement to enrich a learner-owned report, in terms of an e-portfolio. However, guidance on the specification and the organisation of information for purposes other than the representation of formal
47、achievement reports is outside the scope of this European Standard. In addition, this European Standard defines refinements to the EuroLMAI model for representing the Europass DS. The Europass Diploma Supplement Application Profile of EuroLMAI, in full compliance with the Europass requirements, focu
48、ses on the expression of information regarding the qualification awarded to a learner upon completion of a formal educational programme. The proposed profile is needed for the general purposes of: the exploitation of academic achievements abroad: in continuing education or in seeking job opportuniti
49、es; the admission of students or graduates in home and European universities: acknowledgment of credits or transfer of credits accumulated in home institutions moving from one university to another; the expression of the level, content and nature of qualifications to potential employers both nationally and at a European level; the enhancement of internal and European student mobility, from a university to another, or
