Towards Modelling Educational Frameworks for Leveraging Interoperability and Sustaining Flexibility in Change

The CDIO Initiative celebrates its 10th anniversary by proposing today a mature integrated framework to reform or continuously improve engineering programs. It is now time to prepare the next decade in sustaining the evolution of its standards and ensuring their interoperability with other frameworks. Considering models and stakeholders' views, as well as taking inspiration from an enterprise architecture approach, offers several challenges for such. Derived from an analysis of the CDIO standards from a structural, behavioural/business and informational perspectives, this paper reveals some semantic relationships among some of these concepts which also shed light on dependencies among stakeholders' models