UKEC summary

The UK Educational Contexts (UKEC) list provides a set of terms for the environments within which learning and use of learning objects is intended to take place.

The list comprises the following terms:

• nursery education
• primary education
• secondary education
• sixth form college
• further education
• higher education
• continuous professional development
• vocational training
• community education

UKEC usage

The UKEC list can be used in IEEE LOM and IMS metadata.

IEEE LOM

In IEEE LOM metadata, use a term from the UKEC list as a value for the '5.6 context' element within '5. educational'. For example:

  <educational>
    <context>
      <source>UKEC</source>
      <value>higher education</value>
    </context>
  </educational>

IMS

The usage in IMS metadata is as follows:

  <context>
    <source>
      <langstring xml:lang="x-none">UKEC</langstring>
    </source>
    <value>
      <langstring xml:lang="x-none">higher education</langstring>
    </value>
  </context>