DS CWA 16133:2010

Guidelines on a European Learner Mobility model

Scope

For abbreviations, please see clause 2; for definitions of other terms, please see clause 5 on concepts and model.

Figure 1 illustrates a broad view of learner mobility from different points of view.

First, European and National policy stakeholders - as the main initiators and promoters of European and cross-cultural and trans-national learning, education and training (LET) policies and instruments - could be imagined as being above the diagram, looking down at the whole. They are represented here looking in from all sides of the diagram.

Second, there are the three other stakeholder groups: (1) Learners, (2) Employers, and (3) LET organisations offering learning, education, and training opportunities. Each of these three stakeholder groups organises their information about LET around particular concepts that are useful to them: these are the arrows near the three sides of the diagram. In practice, this information is organised into structured sets: these are the boxes in the areas marked "Information Models". Some of these sets of information have agreed specifications of their electronic representation, some at present only have paper formats, which may or may not be generally agreed or standardized. The information models shown are only illustrative: on the employers' side, in particular, there are many more.

Third, there are the Developers and Implementers as additional stakeholders that may attempt to develop and offer services that are related to learner mobility in some way. Some of these services are shown in ovals within the central "Services" rectangle. In this broad view, services relevant to learner mobility range from those helping learners choose LET opportunities, and those related to the administration processes involved in taking up learning opportunities, through services relevant to LET itself, to services relevant to helping learners secure desired employment.