In the last two years CETIS has been working with JISC to support the technical development of the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR), through the Burgess Steering Group.
The HEAR technical specification developed with input from suppliers involved in implementation was published in March is available at: http://www.xcri.org/wiki/index.php/HEAR
The JISC funded Digital Academic Records Exchange (DARE) project is now implementing the specification:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf/DARE.aspx
The recent establishment of a European Standard on Achievement Information, EN 15981, co-authored by CETIS staff, has set the scene for the future introduction of a British Standard with an Annex defining the HEAR in accordance with EN 15981.
Last weekend, a motley crew of designers, students, developers, business and government people came together in Edinburgh to prototype designs and apps to help learners manage their journeys. With help, I built a prototype that showed how curriculum and course offering data can be combined with e-portfolios to help learners find their way.
The first official [...]
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I went to a meeting for stakeholders interested in the eTernity (European textbook reusability networking and interoperability) initiative. The hope is that eTernity will be a project of the CEN Workshop on Learning Technologies with the objective of gathering requirements and proposing a framework to provide European input to ongoing work by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36, [...]
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Just one year ago, there was no Coursera. MOOCs can offer an agile solution that takes student needs into account. And now the MOOC has just got better.
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The idea that I am calling "follower guidance" is about how to relate with chosen others to promote good work, well being, personal growth and development, in an essentially peer-to-peer manner — it's an alternative to "mentoring".
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