JISC CETIS - Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards

JISC CETIS, the Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards, provides advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards. This web site brings together educational technology news, comment and analysis, as well as information on our community events. Our aim is to contribute to current debates and future thinking in this rapidly growing and changing field.

Resources from the recent OER Technical event

The JISC CETIS annual conference will be held on the 15th & 16th November at the National College School Leadership Centre, Nottingham further details will be available soon.

Comment and Analysis

Are OERs just Re-usable Learning Objects with an open license?

01 Sep 2010 John Robertson

Is there any difference between an OER (Open Educational Resource) and a RLO (Reusable Learning Object) apart from the license? and what does the open release of resources have to do with Open Education anyway? Part 1 of some reflections on categories.

Open Educational Resources

Libraries and OERs: OpenEd papers and survey

30 Aug 2010 John Robertson

What role do libraries have in the release or use of Open Educational Resources? A short survey.

Open Educational Resources

What’s in a standard name?

29 Aug 2010 Simon Grant

“Confusion” and “names” go together rather too easily. How might we take forward the representation of names in specifications and standards? In June I noticed some RS3G work on defining person metadata, which I took an interest in, having grappled with this for Leap2A.

Standards

New CETIS White Paper on Competences

26 Aug 2010 Rowin Young

My colleague Simon Grant and I recently collaborated on a paper for the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. In our paper we provide a broad overview of the domain, covering concepts and terminology; the motivation underlying standardisation efforts in the field; past and present standardisation activities and projects; the development of a conceptual model for the [...]

Competences

Design Bash update

17 Aug 2010 Sheila MacNeill

Due to holidays etc I’ve been a bit late in reporting back on the Design Bash we held in conjunction with the 2010 European LAMS conference last month at the University of Oxford. This is the third design bash I’ve been involved in organising.

Learning Platforms Learning Design

What do we know about educational metadata requirements

11 Aug 2010 Phil Barker

We at CETIS are in the early stages of planning a meeting (pencilled in for October, date and venue tbc) to collect and compare evidence on what we know about user requirements for metadata to support the discovery, retrieval, use and management of educational resources.

Resource Description and Discovery Repositories

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