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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.


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.

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08 Sep 2010 Phil Barker
CETIS are organising an event “What metadata is really useful” at Brettenham House in London on Mon. 18 October. This meeting will focus on looking at what data we have (or could acquire) to answer the question of what metadata is really required to support the discovery, selection, use and management of educational resources.
Metadata Resource Description and Discovery Repositories
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07 Sep 2010 Adam's Workblog
In anticipation of a workshop/discussion meeting we are holding on September 24th, I have produced a short position paper, “Suggested Principles for Structuring Standards” (PDF 580kB), to outline the approach I speculate we should take in future in creating specifications and standards for learning education and training. Responses, alternative views etc are most welcome before, during [...]
Standards
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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
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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
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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
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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

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