The repositories strand of CETIS's work looks at the use of systems to manage learning resources, especially the dissemination of those resources (whether open or otherwise). We take a wide view of what a repository is, defining one loosely as a place where resources can be kept. Thus Web2.0 services such as YouTube and Flickr are as much in scope as traditional repository software such as DSpace and ePrints.
This work relates to the Learning Resources and Activities area of the JISC eLearning Programme, and to the JISC Information Environment programme.
Related topics: Resource Description and Discovery, Open Educational Resources
One of the nice things working for CETIS is when organisations like the Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) approach you to contribute to their projects it’s often an opportunity to field test cutting edge innovation. This was the case when ALT recruited me for their Maths Apps Index project. As part of this we implemented LRMI/schema.org resource descriptions into community generated reviews
Resource Management
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
Writing in Booksprints
Presenter and authors: Phil Barker, Lorna M. Campbell, Martin Hawksey, CETIS and Amber Thomas, University of Warwick.
Session: LT50, #abs50
A booksprint is a facilitated, highly structured intensive writing process. This booksprint ran for two and a half days, involved four people and was facilitated by Adam Hyde. The aim of the sprint was to produce [...]
Open Educational Resources
Resource Management
With great pleasure and more relief I can now announce the availability of Into the wild - technology for open educational resources, a book of our reflections on the technology involved in three years of the UK OER Programmes.
From the blurb:
Between 2009 and 2012 the Higher Education Funding Council funded a series of programmes [...]
Metadata
Open Educational Resources
Resource Description and Discovery
Resource Management
There have been a number of reports in the tech press this week about inBloom a new technology integration initiative for the US schools’ sector launched by the Shared Learning Collective. inBloom is “a nonprofit provider of technology services aimed at connecting data, applications and people that work together to create better opportunities for [...]
Metadata
Resource Description and Discovery
Resource Management
Standards