Case Study: Learning Economy Foundation Competency Graph

The Learning Economy Foundation’s LearnCard is a lifelong learning passport that empowers learners to collect, own, and share their skills and experiences. The Foundation asked INFERable’s learning engineering team to develop a prototype skills graph that would (1) integrate into LearnCard to visualize learning trajectories and mastery learning progress, (2) use IEEE standards, (3) display real-time predictions about a learner’s likelihood of success on the next attempt at a task based on prior attempts, and (4) be released as open source code. Our team applied a sample of learning sciences and data science methods in an iterative learning engineering process to develop a prototype codebase and web component. The resulting code was published as open source by the client. More research is needed for adapting this approach to other platforms and contexts.