What is ISO/IEC 19479 - Information technology for learning about?
ISO/IEC 19479 defines a model for the recording, and exchange of learner achievement information among student information systems (SIS), as well as the aggregation of information by third-party suppliers. ISO/IEC 19479 defines refinements to the learner mobility achievement award (LMAI) model for representing the digital diploma supplement (DDS). The model proposed in ISO/IEC 19479 is not intended to define the representation of the entire spectrum of learner mobility information but to define the formally structured representation of official, institutionally attested achievement information for learners engaged in formal learning processes, in order to facilitate its recording, and subsequent exchange within any international area within which learner mobility is possible.
Who is ISO/IEC 19479 - Information technology for learning for?
ISO/IEC 19479 on information technology for learning, education, and training is useful for:
- Higher education institutions
- Employers
- Service providers
- Learners
Why should you use ISO/IEC 19479 - Information technology for learning?
ISO/IEC 19479 specifies a framework of the generic LMAI model that supports the expression of institution-owned learner achievement information, and the formation of official achievement reports, and transparency documents.
The framework model supports additional learner mobility achievement structures, and tools that standardize additional information entities. Related standardization activities are underway to provide other important extensions to LMAI. The LMAI model has been developed to be:
- Lightweight: taking into consideration existing and emerging educational practice processes, and the relevant educational policies
- Easy-to-implement: in order to ensure a rapid uptake by stakeholders of learning, education, and training throughout the world (higher education institutions, learners, employers, service providers, etc.)
The accompanying proposed digital diploma supplement application profile meets the general purposes of:
- The use of academic achievements abroad: in continuing education or in seeking job opportunities
- The admission of students or graduates in domestic institutions, and educational organizations, and those abroad: acknowledgment of credits or transfer of credits accumulated in domestic institutions moving from one institution/educational organization to another
- The expression of the level, content, and nature of qualifications to potential employers both nationally, and at an international level
- The enhancement of internal, and international student mobility, from one educational organization to another, or from one branch of studies to another
- The proper integration of foreign workers into a country's employment setting
- The standardization of higher education qualifications, either in academic or non-academic paths
- The establishment of good practices in the recognition procedures of qualifications among higher education institutions.
