This document discusses competence-based education and Metaversity's role-based model. It outlines issues with traditional competency lists and proposes a position matrix to organize competencies by emerging jobs. The role-based model assigns students micro-roles in educational activities to evaluate performance and progress towards positions. Metaversity software allows students to choose individual paths, employers to filter candidates, and academia to manage programs and analyze competency gaps. The system aims to engage all stakeholders in building an open, community-oriented educational ecosystem.

1. FICCI and GEF workshop, 27 June 2016
Metaversity Competence-based
educational eco-system

2. Competence-based education
From FICCI «Mega Trends of Emerging Third Industrial Revolution in
India»!
«Preparing the workforce and citezenry for the new society will require
the traditional educational model, with its emphasis on rigid
instruction, memorization of facts, reductionist thinking and
autonomous learning.» !
(J. Rifkin)!
«The universe of abilities, skills and knowledge a person holds as
inividual have been categorized under personal competencies»!

3. University of future
❖ From knoweledge to skills,
competences!
❖ Skills of XXI century!
❖ System to evaluate and track
progress!
❖ Personal trajectories!
❖ Practice-oriented education!
❖ Community oriented

4. Competences
have issues
Our issues with competences!
• The list is too long to operationalyze!
• Objective evaluation!
• Tracking progress and setting goals!
• Linking different formats of activities!
Working with competences from 2007 !
we have encountered some problems,
found some solutions,!
and keep prototyping the system.

5. Role-based model for
competences

6. Position matrix
Each faculty creates position matrix (incl emerging jobs).
Starting from simple activities with more complicated positions on the top.
Competences acquired at basic level are accumulated in the next level.

7. Position break down
l We built a graph of competences required for each
position we envision

8. How we work with competences?
Competences
Achieve agreement
Create a model
Analyse information
Create original idea
Position
Activity
Research!
Project!
Prototyping

9. Micro-roles
Stundents
Experimenter
Analyst
Project Leader
Experiment
Teacher
Chooses micro-role
for each educational activity
Evaluates how student
performed his/her role,

10. Edu-system stakeholders
Students
Academia
Civil Society
Employers

11. How it works for student
Chooses position
to achieve
Student
System proposes
relevant events
and roles
Student chooses a
role and takes
part in module
Student receives
feedback for his/her
performance and
observes progress
towards his/her goal

12. Metaversity software
l We developed software to make this system a reality

13. For students
❖ Constant cooperation
within the groups
❖ Individual educational
trajectories with unique modules
❖ Setting a goal and moving
toward it

14. For employers: match to position &
evulation filter
Lead instructor for a
workshop series
Demand Evaluation
Position match = 38%
Evaluation results can be
filtered: you can look for the
marks made by best experts
shutting of less relevant
estimators!

15. For employers: students competence rating
Project manager

16. For academia: program planning & educational
process management
Building position matrix prior to semesters
course specialityresult vision
Activity analysis
competence deficits statistics

17. For academia: positions matrix building
Example: Extracurricular Education for teachers

18. For academia: course speciality
Example: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
(business department)
1st level focus: operational activity and business initiation
A person who can
organize a small
interactive event
(training, discussion,
board game, etc.)
based on existing
instruction!
!
Event leader
A person who can
effectively complete
given task related to
documents or
equipment
Secretary/Assistant Speaker
A person who delivers
a public speech,
speaks clearly and
correctly, holds
audience attention
A person who organize
and make an event
(min for 20-30 people
for 2-3 hours) OR a
project (min for 1-2
weeks working with
small student team)!
Event/Project Leader

19. For academia: activity analysis
Example: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
(business department)
Educational program analysis and competence deficits
Total competence list = 65!
!
With current modules
(CM)!
Deficiency = 30!
!
With recommended
modules (RM)!
Deficiency =16!
!
CM RM
To manage own time, to self-organize to meet deadlines,
to plan the activity (self-discipline, self-organization) 2 5
To switch between several tasks keeping efficiency
working simultaneously on several issues 1 1
To take responsibility, to achieve results 2 4
To assess a situation and to quickly adopt to the changing
environment, to comply to new rules 2 2
…… .. ..

20. Example: National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
Competence analysis as education quality control
For academia: activity analysis
Positions Students amount among
top 12 on this
specialization
Amount of students
with position match
more than 40%
Average position match
in group (%)
Group A Group B Group A Group B Group A Group B
Automatization system
architect
5 7 0 1 11 % 11 %
Automatics and electronic
constructor engineer
3 9 0 1 5 % 10 %
Reactor safety engineer 8 4 3 0 12 % 6 %
…..

21. For Society: engaged university
❖ Education is unleashed form the university.!
❖ Communities offer educational modules.!
❖ Student conduct projects.!
❖ Virtually any actvity can be integrated into education eco-system.