Vocabularies - Educational Use
The Educational Use scheme was developed as part of Vetadata. It provides a broad categorisation of the intended use of a resource in an education and training context.
The Educational Use scheme is also available in XML.
| Vocabulary terms | Description |
|---|---|
| activity | Activity - A task often as part of a lesson plan or larger unit of work - to help students develop or demonstrate particular knowledge, skills, and understandings. |
| assessment guides and tools | Resources used to assist or instruct trainers / delivery agents / assessors in assessing a learner’s competency. Can also be used for Recognition of Current Competency. |
| assessment item | Actual assessment instruments used to evaluate or assess competency. eg assignment description, essay topic, questions, project, questionnaire, quiz, short answers etc. |
| curriculum definition | A resource used to help define instruction rather than deliver instruction. Anything, which defines what is to be learnt whether in the context of a course, training package or non-accredited teaching. |
| event | A non-persistent, time based occurrence. |
| presentation | Record or summary of information or views delivered to an audience for the purposes of instruction. |
| learner guide | Materials accompanying Learner Resources providing guides or instructions as to how to use the resources, rather than being instruction in its own right. |
| learner resource | Any material intended to be used directly by learners. Would usually have an aggregation level of 2, 3 or 4. |
| mobile resource | This value should be used for any resource that has been developed or optimised for use on mobile devices such as PDAs, mobile phones, etc. |
| online collaboration | Education listservs and other online communities – forums for exchanging ideas around particular education topics or challenges. Any networked-based environment intended for two way interaction between participants. |
| online service | Any online service and/or assistance that functions either as an intermediary between the user and online data and information or a non-intermediary service. |
| physical object | Any object that has physical form and is used for the purposes of instruction e.g.: art, cultural or historic objects, photographs, drawings, films, and maps. Digital representations of these should be described in 4.1 Format |
| policy | A document which aids decision making and action and/or states organisational policy. |
| professional development | Resources aimed at the professional development of teachers/ trainers/ delivery agents. |
| promotion | Descriptive marketing information about an organisation or material that promotes its products, services or collections. |
| reference material | Writings in prose, verse, narrative, fiction, non-fiction, journal articles, and any other documents provided as supplementary materials for the purposes of instruction. |
| research | A document reporting the findings of research via a variety of methods – survey, questionnaire, statistical, evaluation, feasibility etc. Can also be current, ongoing or future research. |
| simulation | A simulation is "the technique of imitating the behaviour of some situation or process (whether economic, military, mechanical, etc.) by means of a suitably analogous situation or apparatus". |
| student work | Work produced by students. |
| trainer guide | Materials for use by teacher/trainer/delivery agent/employer as guides or instructional manuals for the purposes of conducting training. |
