XCRIeXchanging Course-Related Information

http://www.elframework.org/projects/xcri

Dr Mark Stubbs | m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk

Aim: to define a vocabulary and appropriate technology bindings (e.g. XML, RDF) for describing course-related information that encompasses course marketing, quality assurance, enrolment and reporting requirements.

approach: informed compromise in action

deliver: vocabulary | technology bindings

scope: course marketing | quality | enrolment | reporting

xcri | review

1. curriculum domain2. xcri | timeline3. xcri | website4. xcri | schema5. xcri | deployments6. xcri | demonstrator7. xcri | in an institution8. xcri | extension

www.startrekdb.se

Marketing Quality Production

Support informed choice via:•Prospectus entries•UCAS Entry Profiles•TQI Programme Specs

Help applicants tostructure applications

+ identifiers+ description+ keywords+ aims+ benchmarks+ learningOutcomes+ strategies+ syllabus+ resources+ assessments+ recognitionsOfAchievement+ accreditations+ assembly+ specialFeatures+ entryRequirements

Course

Smart, Non-Monolithic Document: data entered once and re-used

eXchanging Course-Related Information (XCRI)

Define enrolment possibilities in Student Records System

Populate transcripts /QCL in e-Portfolio

Populate Course Handbooks & ManagedLearning Environments

Supply data forfunding body returns

Advertising Admissions Curriculum Management Enrolment Awards

xcri timeline

jan | feb | mar | apr | may | jun | jul | aug | sep | oct | nov | dec | jan | feb | mar

XCRIELF bid

accepted

XCRIstarts

commsuse cases

reference xmluseful toolsCDM review

surveyUK

practice

agency/projectinterest

ucas, regional pilots

draftschema

schemaconsultationphosphorixdeployment

r1.0schemareleased

curriculumweb

servicesdemonstrator

XCRIELF bid

proposed

phase one phase two phase three

informed compromise in action

r1.0 deployments:ucas, oxfordreid kerr…

PanAsia

Summit(Mcr)

ChiangMai

Summit (Ox)

ChezJules

Summit (Brum)

ZizziSummit

(Ox)

WeinachtsmarktSummit (Berlin)

Rab HaSummit

(Glasgow)

xcri website• FAQs• PM blog• Outputs

– Review of Norway’s CDM– Content-harvesting case studies– 160+ prospectus sites survey– Draft XML schema & XML– Business case for adoption– Release 1.0 schema & XML– R1.0 deployment case studies– Web service demonstrator– Prog Spec XSLT– Presentations & Papershttp://www.elframework.org/projects/xcri

xcri schemafragment

+ identifier+ comment+ dc:any+ description+ code …

spec

+ owningBody+ rationale+ aims+ benchmarks+ learningOutcomes+ strategy+ syllabus+ resource+ assessments+ recognitions+ accreditations+ structure+ specAssembly+ followOnSpecs+ career+ …

fragmentWithAssociation

…

R1.0 XCRI XSD (22/11/05)Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0Sample XML for 5 institutions

xcri deployments

xcri demonstrator

usersexecute pre-defined XCRI XQueries

http://portal.londonmet.ac.uk/xcri/query?qname=q1&varName1=ABFS

execute XPath URL REST queries

http://portal.londonmet.ac.uk/xcri/curriculum/spec[identifier='AC2001C/N']

admincreate & manage collections

import XCRI docs via WebDAV

build & manage XCRI XQueries

codePaul Walk (London Met)

Java Servlets & Berkeley XDB

Tiddly Wiki DocumentationJavadoc

UML diagrams

Source/WAR downloads

xcri in an institutionMMUXCRIXML

MMUProgSpec

XSL

xcri extension

caseStudies

ucasEntryReqs

versioningReport

competenceMapping

vocabulariesReport

authoringReport

refactoredSchema

wsdl

wsdlDemonstrator

srsDemonstrators

pleDemonstrator

engagedStakeholders

eFrameworkSubmission

B,C

A,C

B

A

A

A

A

A

A

A,C

A

B,C

D

ProspectusDatabase

OnlineProspectus

PaperProspectus

UCASEntryProfile

Screens

CurriculumManagement

Database

StudentRecordsSystem

ApplicantInformation

Interface

ApplicantCourse

Info

Prompts

PersonalStatement

CourseDescriptionInterface

Course DocsValidationsMajor & Minor Mods