Competency Model
The University of Waterloo in Canada has taken a slightly different approach and has developed a model based on competencies that seeks to help students connect learning that has taken place in different contexts - professional, strategic, valuing, learning and domain. This enables learners to demonstrate concretely what they know - validating learning and presenting learning being the emphasis. This approach is similar to that taken by the Dutch professional/technical universities.
The Effective Learning Framework Model
The Effective Learning Framework (ELF) model has been developed by the Joint Working Group of Universities Scotland and the Scottish Advisory Committee on Credit and Access (SACCA). The concept of this model is that PDP is only one of the processes embedded in the general framework of learning. The SQA planning cycle shown previously could be incorporated into each of the 3 areas of the ELF model. [NB. This ELF model should not be confused with the JISC e-Learning Framework (eLF)!].
