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MUSKET Middlesex University Skills & Education Planning Tool

MUSKET Middlesex University Skills & Education Planning Tool. Business Information Systems Department School of Engineering & Information Sciences. Project Members. Balbir Barn Associate Dean – grant holder Geetha Abeysinghe / George Dafoulas Principal Lecturers – project managers

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MUSKET Middlesex University Skills & Education Planning Tool

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  1. MUSKETMiddlesex University Skills & Education Planning Tool Business Information Systems Department School of Engineering & Information Sciences

  2. Project Members • Balbir Barn • Associate Dean – grant holder • Geetha Abeysinghe / George Dafoulas • Principal Lecturers – project managers • Yongjun Zheng / Vikram Beedasy • Research Associates – project officers

  3. JISC - Institutional innovation projects in lifelong learning and workforce development Assist employers in accrediting their in-house training with universities through work-based learning. Help universities and students to compare courses from two different educational institutions for credit transfer by finding the % similarity between courses. The Project

  4. Transformation processes supported Employers, prospective applicants Course providers XCRI translation Cohesive reply based on the KB and the XML DB Enquiries Submit a course MUSKET tool Advise to employers about course opportunities, professional accreditation, CPD, and course route planning Course Advisor Employers

  5. The MUSKET Tool Consists of 2 main tools: Transform Tool Semantic Tool To find the % similarity between module description documents To convert Word documents into XCRI format

  6. Transform Tool - Word Conversion XCRI File Univ of Cardiff Word Documents

  7. Why have Transformation tool? • Not all institutions are ready to submit their course information database for mapping to XCRI. • Not all institutions have a course database, e.g companies having in-house training courses have their descriptions in word documents • Time consuming to carry out the repetitive task of converting each module document into XCRI

  8. Transform Tool - Processes Transform Tool

  9. Keyword Selection 2. Click Next to view Keywords and Contents and to map to XCRI fields 1. Selected Keywords appear here.

  10. Assigning the XCRI fields to selected Keywords

  11. Semantic Tool • The tool will compare the % semantic similarity between courses or modules • Musket semantic tool will read the XCRI file ( using Xml 2 OWL application), and output the different owl files of each course.

  12. Semantic Tool - Architecture

  13. Semantic Tool

  14. Similarity Results 2. Similarity based on the dictionary appears here. 1. Similarity value without the dictionary of items

  15. Technologies • XML (for interchange of data and meta-data) • UML (for understanding the document structures and concepts) • OWL (Semantic Web Technology) • Java

  16. www.musket.mdx.ac.uk Thanks!

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