Perez, M., Mendez, C., & Arjona, M. (2009). ID2.19 - Test-outcomes of the Personal Competence Manager (integrated system) before major milestone releases. TENCompetence.This section presents a summary of the evaluation outcomes of the Personal Competence Manager integrated in Liferay and available in (http://tst.tencompetence.org:8080/web/guest/ and http://tst.tencompetence.org:8081/web/guest/). Taking as a reference the test-outcomes in ID2.18 of each of the independent tools, this deliverable presents a schema of their dependencies in the integrated environment.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

Arjona Villanueva, Miguel

Mendez, Carlos

Perez, Mar

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Project no. 027087 
 
TENCompetence 
 
Building the European Network for Lifelong Competence Development 
 
Project acronym: Integrated Project TENCompetence 
 
Thematic Priority: 2.4.10 
 
 
 
ID2.19 - Test-outcomes of the Personal Competence Manager (integrated system) 
before major milestone releases  
 
 
 
 
Due date of internal deliverable: 30-09-2009 
Actual submission date: 07-01-2010 
 
 
 
Start date of project: 01-12-2005     Duration: 4 years 
 
 
 
 
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For Lifelong Competence Development 
 
TENCompetence IST-2005-027087 
 
Project Internal Deliverable Report 
 
ID2.19 – Test-outcomes of the Personal Competence Manager (integrated 
system) before major milestone releases 
 
Work package WP2 - Requirements and analysis of the integrated system 
Task  
Date of delivery Contractual: 30-09-2009 Actual: 07-01-2010 
 
Code name ID2.19 Version: 1.0 Draft    Final  
 
Type of deliverable   Report 
Security 
(distribution level) 
Public 
Contributors  
Authors (Partner) Mar Perez, Carlos Mendez, Miguel Arjona  
Contact Person Mar Perez 
WP/Task responsible Miguel Arjona 
EC Project Officer Mr. M. Májek 
Abstract  
(for dissemination) 
This section presents a summary of the evaluation 
outcomes of the Personal Competence Manager integrated 
in Liferay and available in 
(http://tst.tencompetence.org:8080/web/guest/ and 
http://tst.tencompetence.org:8081/web/guest/). Taking as 
a reference the test-outcomes in ID2.18 of each of the 
independent tools, this deliverable presents a schema of 
their dependencies in the integrated environment. 
Keywords List TENCompetence, evaluation outcomes, Personal Competence 
Manager, integrated environment 
 
TENCompetence Project Coordination at: Open University of the Netherlands 
Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands 
Tel: +31 45 5762605 
 
 ID2.19 - Test-outcomes of the Personal 
Competence Manager (integrated system) 
before major milestone releases 
 
TENCompetence – IST-2005-027087 1/6 
 
 
 
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................... 2 
2. METHODOLOGY...................................................................................... 3 
3. TESTING OF THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER INTEGRATED 
ENVIRONMENT............................................................................................. 4 
 
 ID2.19 - Test-outcomes of the Personal 
Competence Manager (integrated system) 
before major milestone releases 
 
TENCompetence – IST-2005-027087 2/6 
 
 
1. Executive summary 
 
This section presents a summary of the evaluation outcomes of the Personal 
Competence Manager integrated in Liferay and available in 
(http://tst.tencompetence.org:8080/web/guest/ and 
http://tst.tencompetence.org:8081/web/guest/). Taking as a reference the test-
outcomes in ID2.18 of each of the independent tools, this deliverable presents a 
schema of their dependencies in the integrated environment. This schema aims at 
being a basis for future evaluations and for the developers to improve the current 
implementations and have a clear picture of the relations between tools.  
 
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Competence Manager (integrated system) 
before major milestone releases 
 
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2. Methodology 
 
For the evaluation, we have followed the list of requirements for each of the Portlets 
defined in D4.1 (D 4.1 Evaluation Plan, http://hdl.handle.net/1820/684), the test-
outcomes reported in the ID2.18 and the scenarios described in ID4.7. For this 
purpose, we develop a schemas showing the dependencies between the different 
tools according to the scenarios described in D4.7 and the tooling description in 
DIP4. First, we analyze the different scenarios and extract the required relations 
between tools. Second, we review the description of the different tools and services 
in DIP4 and examine whether the relations extracted from the scenario match the 
functionalities defined in the document. In order to define the tools’ dependencies 
schema as realistic as possible, have previously check with member of the WP3 
which of the tools in DIP4 are going to be finally implemented. Finally, we do not 
consider in the schema from the list of DIP4 the Goal Orientation (overview), 
the Social Help, the CV and the Recommendations Liferay Portlets. The 
resulting schemas are the basis for testing the integrated Environment. 
 
The D4.7 distinguishes between three different domains: the E-learning domain, the 
Resource Management domain and the Human Resource Management domain. We 
analyze the three domains for extracting a unique schema of the tool’s 
dependencies.  
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Competence Manager (integrated system) 
before major milestone releases 
 
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3. Testing of the Personal Development Manager 
Integrated environment 
This section presents the outcomes of testing the dependencies and consistency 
between the tools in an integrated environment (Figure 1). The schema aims at 
being a visual representation of the flow of information shared between the different 
tools. We distinguish between the TENCompetence Portlets (in blue), TENC Web 
Apps (in pink) and TENCompetence Services (in green). The Portlets squared in red 
are not available in the test server 
(http://tst.tencompetence.org:8080/web/guest/home) but included in the DIP4. The 
missing relations are depicted in red. 
 
From the relations depicted in Figure 1, we highlight here the most critical relations 
that still remind unsolved in the current release.  
 Connecting evidences with the e-Portofolio: the e-Portfolio should contain all the 
information achieved by the user, i. e. titles, certificates and so one. When 
defining a goal and uploading an evidence, the e-Portfolio should be updated with 
the recently evidence uploaded. 
 Connecting activities with the e-Portfolio: when a user performs an activity in 
his/her plan using the Competence Personal Development Manager, the results of 
the activity should automatically be updated in his/her e-Portfolio as an evidence 
that a competence have been acquired. 
 Connecting an activity with the LD portlets: when a use is working on his/her 
plan, some of the activities included can be LD activities. When this occurs, the 
user should be automatically redirected to the correspondent LD portlet. For 
example, if a user has to perform an activity in LD he/she will be directly 
redirected to the LD player to perform it. In the same way as explained in the 
previous point, the activity will be an evidence in the e-Portfolio if its 
performance means the acquisition of a new competence. 
 Connecting the QTI Player with the QTI Results View: When a user performs a 
QTI test integrated or not into a LD UoL, the results of the tests should be 
visualized by the user when finished. 
 Searching Learning Paths: when a learning path is created with the learning path 
editor, it should be upload to the server to let other users find it with the search 
option.  
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 Searching a UoL: There are two different ways of searching for an LD activity or 
UoL. The user can look for a zip corresponding to a UoL or can directly look for 
the link to this UoL already created using the LD Admin portlet. In both cases, 
the resource should be upload to the Coppercore Service Layer and Fedora for 
being found when a user searches for them.  
 
 
 
 
 
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Competence Manager (integrated system) 
before major milestone releases 
 
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Figure 1 Schema with the dependencies’ between tools.  
* LD Admin tool is available in http://tst.tencompetence.org:8081/web/guest/. 
Author Admin TENCompetence Portlets 
Search link to a 
UoL 
( 
LD Admin Tool* 
(CopperCore LD 
Admin Portlet) 
Goal Selector 
(Goal Portlet in 
the test 
environment) 
Coppercore 
Service Layer 
The self-assessment test 
delivered to the user should be 
related with the goal 
The goal is added to the PDP Goal automatically 
The self-assessment tests 
should be related with the goal 
and the competence level 
included in the PDP 
Self-Assessment 
(Assessment 
Portlet in the test 
PDP 
Plans created in the PDP 
should be added to My Plans 
automatically 
Portfolio  
Evidences are 
included in the 
Portfolio 
Learn & Test 
Environment  
(CopperCore 
LinkTool 
Portlet and 
SLED3 Player) 
 
When an activity 
in a plan is a QTI 
test, the user 
should be 
redirected to the 
Take a QTI Test 
Portlet  
When the 
activity in a plan 
is a UoL, the 
user should be 
linked to the 
Learn&Test  
Activities and UoLs 
performed with 
competences achieved 
are uploaded in the 
Portfolio  
 
View QTI Test 
Results 
Competence e-
Evidence 
(Evidence 
Overview) 
Corresponds to the 
evidence files in PDP 
My Plans 
UoLs performed and 
finished should be 
included in the 
ePortfolio, including 
the date of 
completion. 
Learning Path 
Manager 
Learning Path 
Editor 
Learnweb 2.0 
Recourse 
Activity Editor 
Competence 
Profile Editor 
(Competence 
Model Editor) 
 
Test Editor 
(QTI Editor) 
Storing Activities, 
Competence Profile and 
Tests. The activities and 
the tests are related to a 
competence 
 Search 
The learning Path editor search Activities, 
UoLs and Competence and Competence 
profile. And the Paths are stored also in the 
KR Service Layer. The Learning Path 
Manager search for available learning paths 
and visualizes them to the user. 
 
Uploads UoLs to Fedora 
Searches for activities/UoLs 
QTI editor creates 
XML files that will 
be interpreted by 
the APIS Package 
(engine under Take 
a QTI Tests Portlet) 
 
Self-assessment 
tests can be links 
to a QTI test 
 
Take a QTI test 
Storing UoL Links. 
The links to a UoL 
are done through a 
run that is 
administrated by 
the LD admin Tool 
 
KR Services Layer 
(in FEDORA) 


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