1、 One or more corrigenda exist with corrections to this document. These can be searched online and ordered free of charge at www.beuth.de July 2011 Translation by DIN-Sprachendienst.English price group 17No part of this translation may be reproduced without prior permission ofDIN Deutsches Institut f
2、r Normung e. V., Berlin. Beuth Verlag GmbH, 10772 Berlin, Germany,has the exclusive right of sale for German Standards (DIN-Normen).ICS 35.240.99!$sf“1805667www.din.deDDIN EN 15981European Learner Mobility Achievement information (EuroLMAI)English translation of DIN EN 15981:2011-07Europisches Model
3、l fr Lernermobilitt Angaben ber die Leistung (EuroLMAI)Englische bersetzung von DIN EN 15981:2011-07Mobilit des apprenants europens Informations relatives aux rsultats obtenus (EuroLMAI)Traduction anglaise de DIN EN 15981:2011-07www.beuth.deDocument comprises pagesIn case of doubt, the German-langua
4、ge original shall be considered authoritative.4507.11 DIN EN 15981:2011-07 National foreword This standard has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 353 “Information and Communication Technologies for Learning, Education and Training” (Secretariat: UNI, Italy). The responsible German body invo
5、lved in its preparation was the Normenausschuss Informationstechnik und Anwendungen (Information Technology and selected IT Applications Standards Committee), Working Committee NA 043-01-36 AA Lerntechnologien. This document describes the model for the recording and exchange of learner achievement i
6、nformation among student management information systems, as well as the aggregation of information by third party suppliers; this model is associated with the Diploma Supplement (DS). An increase in the mobility of learners and the improvement of their job opportunities takes high priority in Europe
7、an educational policy. The Europass and the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) lay down the framework conditions for a transparent description of personal abilities, competencies and qualifications. The additional information provided in diplomas and certificates issued throughout Europe will ma
8、ke it easier to compare such documents. The information to be included and the form it is to take is laid down in the model specified here. The existence of generally accepted framework conditions shows that Europe has reached the stage at which the development of technical standards for supporting
9、learner mobility is necessary. This document gives a technical description of a data model for the ELM-DS with which information regarding the qualification of learners can be described. Additional note: In Figures D.1, D.2 and D.3 “1*” stands for “1n” (n = at least 1 to any number of occurrences).
10、The DIN Standard corresponding to the International Standard referred to in this document is as follows: ISO 8601 DIN ISO 8601 National Annex NA (informative) Bibliography DIN ISO 8601, Data elements and interchange formats Information interchange Representation of dates and times 2 EUROPEAN STANDAR
11、D 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 rsultats obtenus (EuroLMAI) Europisches Model fr Lernermobilitt - Angaben ber die Leistung (Eu
12、roLMAI) 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 status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographic
13、al 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, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility
14、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, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hung
15、ary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centr
16、e: 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: EContents Page Foreword . 4Introduction . 51 Scope 72 Normative references 83 Terms and definitions . 94 Symbols and abbreviated
17、terms 125 Conventions . 146 Conformance 156.1 Conforming instances . 156.2 Conforming bindings 156.3 Conforming applications 157 European Learner Mobility Achievement Information Model . 167.1 General . 167.2 Domain model 167.3 EuroLMAI Resources 177.3.1 Classes . 177.3.2 Association properties 187.
18、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 included from ISO 15836 207.6 Properties included from DCMI Metadata Terms . 207.7 Properties included from IETF RFC 2426 207.8 P
19、roperties 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 Opportunity Specification 228.6 Learning Opportunity Instance 228.7 Qualification . 238.8 Credit 23Annex A (normative) Europass Diplom
20、a 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 properties 24A.2.3 Attribute Properties . 24A.3 The Europass DS Description Set Profile . 26A.3.1 General . 26A.3.2 Diploma
21、 Supplement Document 26A.3.3 Learner 26A.3.4 Issuer 26EN 15981:2011 (E) DIN EN 15981:2011-07 2A.3.5 Learning Opportunity Specification: Programme Level 27A.3.6 Learning Opportunity Instance: Programme Level 27A.3.7 Learning Opportunity Specification: Transcript Level 28A.3.8 Learning Opportunity Ins
22、tance: 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 33Annex D (informative) Illustrative uses of the EuroLMAI Model and the Europass DS Application Profile . 36D.1 General
23、 . 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 of study . 39D.5 EuroLMAI Europass DS document 39Annex E (informative) Application Profiling . 41E.1 DCMI Abstract Model
24、 41E.2 Application Profiles and their roles and usage 41E.3 Extensions to properties 41E.4 Graceful degradation 42Bibliography 43EN 15981:2011 (E) DIN EN 15981:2011-07 3Foreword This document (EN 15981:2011) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 353 “Information and Communication Technolog
25、ies 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 identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by November 2011, and conflicting national standards shall be withd
26、rawn 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 be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. The European Learner Mobility Achievement Informa
27、tion 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 results of this work will contribute to the effort towards interoperable European-wide IT systems that manage and exchan
28、ge learner achievement information. The “European Learner Mobility“ Working Item was initiated by the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT), Greece. The development of the proposed model has been carried out within the context of the CEN WS-LT project on “Guidelines for a European Learner
29、 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 Technological Educational Institute of Athens (Greece). The document has been developed through the collaboration of a number
30、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 of Duisburg Essen/eLC (Germany), USIT/UiO (Norway), Digitary (Ireland), University of Vigo (Spain), ISFOL (Italy),
31、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 (EuroLM) standardization efforts is highly acknowledged. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the nat
32、ional standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands
33、, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. EN 15981:2011 (E) DIN EN 15981:2011-07 4Introduction The establishment of Europass as a common framework which is accepted throughout Europe demonstrates that European education has reached a
34、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 point of this Working Item several relevant standardization efforts were identified and significant national exp
35、ertise had already been accumulated. However, harmonization was deemed necessary towards a European solution, in order to provide viable support for emerging European student management information systems and dissuade service providers from developing proprietary services and platforms. The results
36、 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 employment opportunities exploration), higher education institutions (certification or augmentation of learner informati
37、on), employers (work-place descriptions, recruiting and development of learners competences) and other stakeholders of learning, education, and training throughout Europe, as the European Union and Commission, the Member States and their governments and ministries, etc. The EuroLM Achievement Inform
38、ation (EuroLMAI) model directly addresses the European requirement for rapid implementation and dissemination of the institution-owned transparency information tools throughout Europe. It has been developed as a generic model for representing the institution attested achievements of a learner within
39、 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 specifies a subset (skeleton) of the generic EuroLMAI model that supports the expression of institution-owned lea
40、rner 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 need for supporting of additional learner mobility achievement structures and tools (e.g. that of Europass Mobil
41、ity) calls for the enhancement of the skeleton model with additional standardized information entities (e.g. intended learning outcomes, assessment processes) and relevant standardization activities are underway in order to provide other important extensions to EuroLMAI. In addition to EuroLMAI, thi
42、s European Standard provides an Application Profile of the EuroLMAI model, introducing necessary refinements and constraints for the accurate representation of the Europass Diploma Supplement (DS). The Europass DS is considered one of the most important documents of the Europass framework, which sig
43、nificantly contributes to the transparent interpretation and recognition of academic and professional qualifications (diplomas, degrees, certificates) across the diverse European educational systems. In essence, the Europass DS aims at: promoting transparency within and between higher education syst
44、ems; 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 information relating to qualifications; EN 15981:2011 (E) DIN EN 15981:2011-07 5 facilitating academic and professional
45、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 among the EU member states. The European countries have taken up the DS initiative and have specified thei
46、r 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 DS is represented in a proprietary manner. A major problem has been the lack of interoperable tools, impedin
47、g 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 and its Europass DS Application Profile have been developed as: a lightweight standard taking into considera
48、tion 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, education and training throughout Europe (higher education institutions, learners, employers, service providers,
49、etc.) EN 15981:2011 (E) DIN EN 15981:2011-07 61 Scope This European Standard specifies a model for the recording and exchange of learner achievement information among student management information 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 inf
