National registries for life-long learning infrastructure in Norway

9 pages•Published: January 13, 2025

Geir Magne Vangen and Anne Kathrine Haugen

Abstract

The Norwegian Government's Skills Reform (2020) - Lifelong Learning aims to ensure continuous skill enhancement to prevent obsolescence in the workforce. A significant measure in the reform is the establishment of a digital competence ecosystem to address the societal challenge of a widening skills gap. This paper discusses the development of the ecosystem, the challenges in the current situation, the needs of the target group, and the incorporation of various registers to facilitate lifelong learning.
The ecosystem aims to provide holistic and seamless user experiences, facilitate data accessibility, and promote closer interaction between the workforce and education providers. Despite a high level of education and a rich learning environment, rapid changes in the labour market necessitate continuous knowledge updating. However, a decreasing trend in training participation, especially among individuals with low formal education, presents a challenge.
This paper discusses some central components of a platform for lifelong learning, national registries, and certain services to enable such an ecosystem: A National Education Registry, a Learner Registry and Result registries. These registers will provide comprehensive overviews of formal educational offerings, collect, and verify digital credential data, an authoritative registry for individuals in education, and provide a framework for retrieving and sharing academic results, respectively. The development and establishment of this competence ecosystem for lifelong learning is a collaborative effort involving both public and private actors.

Keyphrases: infrastructure for life long learning, national registries, sharing data

In: Raimund Vogl, Laurence Desnos, Jean-François Desnos, Spiros Bolis, Lazaros Merakos, Gill Ferrell, Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens, vol 105, pages 117-125.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/ZZ71
	https://doi.org/10.29007/xrq9

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2024:National_registries_life_long,
  author    = {Geir Magne Vangen and Anne Kathrine Haugen},
  title     = {National registries for life-long learning infrastructure in Norway},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens},
  editor    = {Raimund Vogl and Laurence Desnos and Jean-François Desnos and Spiros Bolis and Lazaros Merakos and Gill Ferrell and Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {105},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/ZZ71},
  doi       = {10.29007/xrq9},
  pages     = {117-125},
  year      = {2025}}

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