Modeling Long Term Learning of Generic Skills

Many of the most important learning goals can only be achieved over several years. This means that each semester’s teaching should build these skills. Our CUSP system helps achieve this over the 3 5 years of a university degree: it enables each teacher to map their own subject design to institutional learning goals; it creates both subject and degree-level models. It tackles the semantic mapping challenges using a highly flexible lightweight approach. We report its validation for 60+ degree programs and 1000+ subjects. CUSP makes a contribution to understanding how to model long term learning of generic skills, using a lightweight semantic mapping based on multiple sets of externally defined learning goals. The work contributes to understanding of how to create comprehensive models of long term learning programs that are practical in real environments.