DC-EDUCATION–OPEN ISSUE
Course/Grade/Academic Level
15 April 2000Part of the discussions on the DC-Education listserv since the face-to-face meeting in Melbourne have focused on the need to identify the “level” of the students/trainees for which the resource being described is intended. This notion of level might be expressed in a number of ways depending on the context but appears to include information such as grade level, course level, and perhaps age group. In listserv discussions prior to the Melbourne meeting, this aspect of a resource was part of the proposed “Audience” element. See, for example, the discussion summary (Category: Audience) leading into face-to-face meeting.
While there appears to be general agreement on the need to capture this aspect of a resource for effective networked information discovery and retrieval, questions have arisen regarding whether the information appropriately belongs as part of the proposed “Audience” element (perhaps as an element qualifier) or as a separate DC-Education element.
While it is unlikely that a full discussion of this issue can take place in the short time available to the DC-Education Working Group before the proposal is to be submitted to the Advisory Committee for review (April 30, 2000), the general agreement that a need to more precisely identify this aspect of an educational resource demands that discussions be ongoing. This would mean that a proposal on this matter would go to the Advisory Committee at a later date.