Automated Student Portfolio Development and Verification for Expertise Capture in Learning and Development Activities - the DECADE Approach

The DECADE project is concerned with the capture of data from digital authoring and development environments, to enable quantitative and qualitative analysis to determine the expertise of individual practitioners. The purpose behind this activity is to address the need for potential employers, project managers and certification bodies to be able to validate and verify that expertise. The proposed architecture and processing model for the project will result in the automated creation of a portfolio of verified activities, validated and authenticated, with a detailed analysis of the individual domain expertise of the practitioner generated from that data. This will also offer a particularly valuable resource for students and academics, in subjects in which a significant proportion of learning activities take place in digital environments. The automated portfolio can support personalisation of learning activities, feedback and assessment, and can help address issues of plagiarism