CBE, Educación basada en competencias

1. Definiciones

Formación basada en competencias: Una forma de organizar la formación de modo que lo que medimos es conocimientos y habilidades. El tiempo empleado en adquirirlas no es importante. Los alumnos pueden demostrar lo que saben a su propio ritmo.

Competence: Skill or knowledge, that can be aquired through a course, informal learning, experience or job.

2. Basic steps to set up CBE

• Enable CBE at the sytem level
  
• Create competency frameworks
  
• Create learning plan templates
  
• Assign:
  • Learning plans to learners
  • Competencies to courses and activities

Sounds easy!

3. Who does what in CBE?

The organization

The administrator

• Creates competency frameworks
  
• Creates learning plans templates
  
• Assigns learning plans to users and cohorts
  

The instructor

4. Contexts in CBE

System (Administrators): 

5. Our situation

Already decided

6. CBE, here we come!

So, let's go back to those basic steps we spoke about earlier and expand.

7. Creating Competency Frameworks (CF)

• System level: Admin panel / Competencies / Competency frameworks.
  
• Category level: Admin panel / Courses / Courses and categories  / access the category / Admin panel / Competency frameworks
  
• Add new competency framework
  
• Name
  
• ID number: UNIQUE, important for import, export, updates
  
• Scale: Choose one and configure.
  
• Rest of fields are optional.
• Visible will make the CF usable or not. We will keep it not visible until it is ready to use. Useful also when switching to newer CF.
• Taxonomies are only the name they will get. If you have a certain name that is used for the different levels, you can use them here. If not, they can stay as they are by default.
• And if 4 levels is no enough, don’t worry. More will be created automatically as you fill up the CF.

8. Creating Competency Frameworks (cont.)

• Visible will make the CF usable or not. We will keep it not visible until it is ready to use. Useful also when switching to newer CF.
  
• Taxonomies are only the name they will get. If you have a certain name that is used for the different levels, you can use them here. If not, they can stay as they are by default.
  
• And if 4 levels is no enough, don’t worry. More will be created automatically as you fill up the CF.
  

8.1. Scales

Scales in CF are used to value the level or competency. We can create a scale in Admin panel / Grading / Scales, giving a name andl list of values from smaller to bigger. Ex. 0,1,2,3

To use the scale in CF, select the scale you created from the creation screen of the CF and configure the values:

• Default: Select the value from the scale assigned when completion is marked automatically. Ex. 1
  
• Proficient: Select all the values that mean the competency is aquired in its different levels. Ex. 1,2,3
  

9. Adding competencies to the CF

• Click the CF’s name and click Add competency.
  
• Name
  
• Unique ID number
  
• Scale: Select a different one, by default is inherited from the CF.
  
• Description is optional, can describe the competency in detail.
  
• Save
  
• Repeat to add more competencies
  
• Build the structure clicking on a node.
  
• Add competency will add a child to the node.
  
• Edit will edit the selected node.
  
• Relocate will allow moving the node to another place (incl changing the depth). Click onto the new parent node to relocate.
  
• Delete will remove the node and all its children
  
• Move up/down will move a node up / down in the listing.
  
• Linked courses will show the courses linked with the competency
  

9.1. Cross references

• Cross-referencing two competencies ONLY for easy finding.
  
• Does not have any other value at the moment.
  

9.2. Rules

Rules are used for autocompletion of a node when children are completed.

Select the outcome: 

• Attach evidence
  
• Recommend
  
• Mark complete
  

When?

• Children complete
  
• Points required are met
  

9.3. Example: Competency completed when...

...all children complete:

This will mark automatically a node complete when the children and marked complete.

… points required are met:

We assign points to the different children and make some of them compulsory.

Users can fulfill the parent competency by reaching the number of points, sharing the weighs not evenly.

Points required: 100p, sublevels: A1 to A6

A1: 50p, compulsory. A2-A5: 10p. A6: 20p.

You can reach 100p with different combinations,as long as A1 is one of the competencies achieved.

For example A1 + A6 + A4 + A5 + A2 sum 100 points. If these are achieved, you get the parent node completed.

10. Creating Learning Plan Templates (LPT)

• After we finish with CF
  
• System level: Admin panel / Competencies / Learning plan templates
  
• Category level: Admin panel / Courses / Courses and categories / access the category / Admin panel / Learning plan templates
  
• Add new learning plan template
  
• Name.
  
• Rest of the fields are optional.
  
• Will not complete automatically unless due date is set.
  

11. Adding competencies to LPT

• Add competencies to learning plan template
  
• Use the search to help locate competencies
  
• Add to LPT by clicking on them.
  
• For more than one at a time, use CTRL + click
  
• From the LPT listing we can 
  
• Edit
  
• Duplicate
  
• Delete
  
• Assign the LPT to learners
  

12. Assign LPs to learners

For users, 

• select Create learning plans.
  
• Search for users
  
• Click create learning plans
  

For cohorts, 

• select Add cohorts to sync.
  
• Search for cohorts
  
• Click Add cohorts
  

13. Assign competencies to course

• Course administration / Competencies
  
• Add competencies to course
  
• Select from the window. CTRL+Click form multiples.
  
• For each competency, select what to do in course completion:
  
  • Nothing
    
  • Attach evidence
    
  • Send for review
    
  • Complete the competency
    
• To force updating competencies ratings in LPs, Course administration / Competencies / Click GEAR (as admin)
  

14. Assign competencies to activity / resource

• You will not be able to add a competency to an activity or resource within a course before the competency is added to the course.
  
• Activity / Edit / Competencies
  
• Select the competencies linked to the activity
  
• Select what to do upon activity completion (same as with course)
  
• Save
  

15. Maintainance for CFs

• Not recomended to edit CFs once some competencies have been awarded
  
• Best idea is to add a new CF and migrate the new courses from the old CF to the new one.
  
• After migration, deactivate old CF
  
• Admin / Competencies / Migrate framework
  
• Select old CF
  
• Select new CF
  
• Select the courses to be moved (limiting, excluding or by start date)
  
• Importing supported in several formats (need to ask with a ticket to activate https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_lpimportcsv)
  

16. Importing CFs

Importing supported in several formats (need to ask with a ticket to activate https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_lpimportcsv)

• Download an already created CF from Site admin / Competencies / Export CF
  
• Select the CF
  
• Export
  
• Modify in Excel and save (delete all optionals, add nodes)
  
• Site admin / Competencies / Import CF
  
• Select the file, separator and encoding
  
• Map the fields
  
• Import
  

17. Managing and updating plans

• IMPORTANT: add the Learning plan block somewhere
  
• Managers can see evidence pending
  
• Users can see own plan
  
• Managers = teachers? Add  moodle/competency:planview to teacher to view all competencies across courses.
  
• No? Use a new role: LP Supervisor or viewer
  
• https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Learning_plan_supervisor
  
• https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Learning_plan_viewer
  
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=345617
  

The review process

STU: 

• Go to own LP and access competencies
  
• Might need to upload evidence OR finish an activity
  
• Click request review
  

TEA: 

• Views request in LP block
  
• Click the link to access
  
• Click to start the review
  
• Check evidence
  
• Click to finish the review process
  
• Rate
  

Rating competencies by hand

Teachers can rate competencies by hand only within course.

• Course administration / Reports / Competency breakdown
  
• Select student from the list
  
• Click competency
  
• Select rating from dropdown
  

Managers can rate competencies by hand on the system the same way but accessing via LP block

18. What shall we do?

Already decided