The Jisc Cetis site is now archived. The current Cetis site is available at: http://www.cetis.ac.uk. Between 2006 and 2013 the Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards was a Jisc funded service supporting Jisc Innovation programmes with events, publications and blog posts. Cetis now undertakes projects and research for a number of clients and partners. Cetis is based at the University of Bolton.

Latest Publications

Activity Data and Paradata

CETIS Analytics Series: Case Study, Acting on Assessment Analytics

Writing in Book Sprints

The Learning Registry: social networking for open educational resources?

New approaches to describing and discovering open educational resources

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Events

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Programme Support

More about the support JISC CETIS provides

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Learning Opportunities (XCRI)

XCRI is a JISC-funded, UK-oriented project to establish a specification to support the eXchange of Course-Related Information. XCRI stands for eXchanging Course-Related Information, and the XCRI Course Advertising Profile (XCRI-CAP) is an XML specification used to share information about courses between UK education institutions and aggregators such as UCAS and other sites that advertise courses.

Articles

Why we need more Rhino’s like Erica promoting digital literacy

25 Apr 2013 Sheila MacNeill

I was delighted to take part in the University of Southampton’s 2nd digital literacies conference (#sotonmooc) event yesterday. I gave a presentation on my experiences of being a student on MOOCs. However, what really made the day for me was hearing from some “real” students about the range work they have been involved in as […]

Learning Opportunities (XCRI)

What could a GPS for learner journeys look like?

17 Apr 2013 Wilbert Kraan

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 […]

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Badges? Certificates? What counts as succeeding in MOOCs?

25 Mar 2013 Sheila MacNeill

Oops, I did it again. I’ve now managed to complete another MOOC. Bringing my completion rate of to a grand total of 3 (the non completion number is quite a bit higher but more on that later). And I now have 6 badges from #oldsmooc and a certificate (or “statement of accomplishment”) from Coursera. But […]

Assessment Portfolio Learning Opportunities (XCRI)

What can I do with my educational data? (#lak13)

06 Mar 2013 Sheila MacNeill

Following on from yesterday’s post, another “thought bomb” that has been running around my brain is something far closer to the core of Audrey’s “who owns your educational data?” presentation. Audrey was advocating the need for student owned personal data lockers (see screen shot below). This idea also chimes with the work of the Tin […]

Portfolio Lifelong Learning Learning Opportunities (XCRI) Learning Platforms Data Visualisation Learning Analytics Analytics

Another perspective on inBloom

05 Mar 2013 Lorna M. Campbell

Thanks to Pat Lockley for drawing my attention to Reuter’s interesting take on inBloom, the US K-12 development that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago. You can find the article here: K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents. Just in case you missed it, inBloom is a new technology integration [...]

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