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.

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Come and join us! 02 Feb 2012 Sharon's Blog Are you interested in improving your BCE CRM (Business and Community Engagement Customer Relationship Management) processes to help increase revenue streams? Do you want to find out about SLRM (Student Lifecycle Relationship Management) and putting the student at the heart of the process? If so, come and join our RM in HE/FE Community of Practice Customer Relationship Management Student Lifecycle Relationship Management Relationship Management

Data Protection - Anticipating New Rules 02 Feb 2012 Adam's Workblog On January 25th 2012, the European Commission released its proposals for significant reform of data protection rules in Europe (drafts had been leaked in late 2011). These proposals have been largely welcomed by the Information Commissioners Office , although it also recommends further thought over some of the proposals. The dramatic changes in the scale [...] Architecture and Modelling Packaged Content Horizon Scan

Relationship Management in UK HE and FE Report Now Available 02 Feb 2012 Sharon's Blog Relationship management is becoming increasingly important in the tertiary education sector as education institutions try to meet the challenges of funding cuts and increased student and community expectations. Customer relationships, if handled effectively, will bring benefits to both the organisation and the sector as a whole and it is in this area that JISC developed the Relationship Management Programme. Achievement information Architecture and Modelling Packaged Content Customer Relationship Management Student Lifecycle Relationship Management Relationship Management Standards

Standards used in JISC programmes and projects over time 01 Feb 2012 David Sherlock Today I took part in an introduction to R workshop being held at The University of Manchester. R is a software environment for statistics  and while it does all sorts of interesting things that are beyond my ability one thing that I can grasp and enjoy is exploring all the packages that are available for R, these packages extend [...] Standards Data Visualisation

JLeRN Hackday - Issues Identified 01 Feb 2012 Lorna M. Campbell Last week I went to the hackday organised by the JLeRN team and CETIS to kick off Mimas’ JLeRN Experiment. JLeRN is a JISC funded exploratory project to build an experimental Learning Registry node. Here's a summary of some of the issues we discussed. Metadata Resource Description and Discovery

Enyo: a component-oriented JS framework 31 Jan 2012 Scott Wilson Enyo first made an appearance on the HP TouchPad and was the framework used for WebOS applications.  However, after HP killed the TouchPad and put WebOS development on hold, HP has spun off Enyo into a standalone open-source JS app … Continue reading → Widgets

Summary of technologies in use in the JISC Developing Digital Literacies Programme 31 Jan 2012 Sheila MacNeill The JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme is now well underway. As I reported from the programme start up meeting last October , the aim of this 2 year programme is too " . . .promote the development of coherent, inclusive and holistic institutional strategies and organisational approaches for developing digital literacies for all staff and students [...] Competences Curriculum Design Open Educational Resources Learning Platforms Standards Data Visualisation

Information Principles for the Public Sector - the Case of Principle 4 30 Jan 2012 Adam's Workblog In December 2011, Version 1.0 of "Information Principles for the UK Public Sector" (pdf) was published by the Cabinet Office. The principles have been endorsed by both the CIO and CTO councils within government. What surprised me is how good this document is. The approach taken recognises that the principles will be implemented in diverse ways [...] Standards

OER Visualisation Project: Visualising CaPRéT OER tracking data [day 32] #ukoer 30 Jan 2012 MASHe In May 2009 JISC CETIS announced the winners of the OER Technical Mini-Projects. These projects were designed: to explore specific technical issues that have been identified by the community during CETIS events such as #cetisrow and #cetiswmd and which have arisen from the JISC / HEA OER Programmes JISC CETIS OER Technical Mini Projects Call [...]

Programme Maps ( or even more maps . . .) 30 Jan 2012 Sheila MacNeill Following on from David's post on Getting Useful Data out of Prod and its linked data store this post shows a couple of examples of creating programme level maps. David and I have spent a bit of time over the past week going through some of Martin Hawksey's ideas, working out what we [...] Data Visualisation

Getting data out of PROD and its triplestore 30 Jan 2012 David Sherlock For a while I have been wondering about the best way of creating a how-to guide around getting data out of the JISC CETIS project directory and in particular around its linked data triple store. A few weeks ago Martin Hawksy posted some great examples of work he’s been doing, including maps using data generated [...] Data Visualisation

Approaches to building interoperability and their pros and cons 27 Jan 2012 Wilbert Kraan System A needs to talk to System B. Standards are the ideal to achieve that, but pragmatics often dictate otherwise. Let's have a look at what approaches there are, and their pros and cons. Architecture and Modelling Standards

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