Linking Content to Curricula by using Competencies

1. resources are metadata tagged according to all (an estimated 50 national/regional) curricula in Europe alone. This is very expensive in initial tagging and maintenance. 2. a mapping is provided between the different curricula such that if a resource is metadata tagged according to one curriculum (e.g. the Flemish curriculum), it can be discovered and shown in terms on another curriculum (e.g. the Austrian curriculum) . A curriculum mapping (see [7], [8]) means that a component of one curriculum can be mapped to a boolean expression of components of another curriculum. This mapping can be done in two ways: relating all curricula pair wise to each other or relate all curricula to a common spine. 3. resources are metadata tagged according to a spine or universal curriculum. This approach is workable but is not really meeting the objectives of allowing the teacher to browse according to her own curriculum unless a mapping is made between the specific national/regional curriculum and the spine. 4. all countries and regions adopt the same curriculum. This is politically not feasible in the short nor middle term.