For a number of years it has become more pressing for universities and colleges, and especially their IS Directors, to raise their game when it comes to building, adapting and maintaining their ICT applications and infrastructure.
This aspiration has led to an increasing interest in service oriented approaches, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, shared services, standards, soft systems approaches, various kinds of modeling, collaborative design, improving IT governance, engaging senior management and much more.
This section focuses particularly on three of these areas: modeling, service-orientation and enterprise architecture.
The ease with which data can be transferred without loss of meaning from a store to an analytical tool - whether this tool is in the hands of a data scientist, a learning science researcher, a teacher, or a learner – and the ability of these users to select and apply a range of tools [...]
Architecture and Modelling
Packaged Content
Standards
Analytics
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 [...]
Portfolio
Lifelong Learning
Achievement information
Architecture and Modelling
Competences
Semantic Technologies
Learning Opportunities (XCRI)
Resource Description and Discovery
Resource Management
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, [...]
Accessibility
Assessment
Achievement information
Architecture and Modelling
Packaged Content
As part of the JISC Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design project, the UG-Flex project at the University of Greenwich undertook set out to "reveal and enhance the University’s curriculum development processes in order to support a more agile and diverse curriculum underpinned by integrated systems."
As part of on going dialogue about the technical [...]
Architecture and Modelling
Curriculum Design
Learning Platforms