Cetis and OER, SLA SIG

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An Introduction to CETIS

Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill

CETIS Assistant Directors

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What is CETIS?

Centre for Educational

Technology and

Interoperability

Standards

A national Innovation Support Centre providing advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards.

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About CETIS

Partnership between: University of Bolton (10)University of Strathclyde (3)Heriot Watt University (1)

Funded by Jisc since 2001.

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What is Jisc?

Jisc is:A registered charity that works on behalf of UK higher education, further education and skills to champion the use of digital technologies.Funded by all the UK post-16 and higher education funding bodies as well as the research councils. Owned by AOC, Guild HE and UUK.

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What does CETIS do?

We work with our clients and partners to develop policy and strategy, providing impartial and independent advice on technology and standards. CETIS are active in the development and implementation of open standards and represent our clients in national, European and global standards bodies and industry consortia. We develop & support the adoption of technology and standards for course advertising, open education resources, assessment, and student data management, opening new markets and creating opportunities for innovation.

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CETIS activities: Programme Support

Programmes CETIS has supported include:Open Educational ResourcesDeveloping Digital LiteraciesAssessment and FeedbackDistributed Virtual Learning Environments Customer Relationship ManagementCurriculum Design and DeliveryDigital Repositories

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What activities: Standards

CETIS represents UK F/HE on a wide range of international standards bodies including:British Standards InstituteInternational Standards Organisation IMS Global Learning ConsortiumCEN/ISS Learning Technology WorkshopIEEEDublin Core Metadata InitiativeLearning Resource Metadata InitiativeWorld Wide Web Consortium


CETIS activities: Community Engagement

Recent working groups: Open Educational Resources Widgets Semantic technology QTI profile Competencies eBooks Analytics MOOC technology


CETIS activities: Social Networking & Analysis

Extensive use of social network technologies to support and build community engagement.

Network analysis techniques to monitor and visualise community engagement and development of social networks.

See Martin Hawksey’s http://mashe.hawksey.info


CETIS activities: Communications

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk

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CETIS activities: Briefing Papers

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CETIS activities: Synthesis & Horizon Scanning

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What CETIS does: Events

Online seminars. Community events. Codebashes, plugfests and interoperability

testing events. Hackdays and technical developer events. Annual conference

• CETIS 13 - Open for Education: Technology Innovation in Universities and Colleges.

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What CETIS does: Partnerships ALT Scotland RSC Scotland SQA Jorum (Re:Source,

Scotlands Colleges) Social Media Week,

Glasgow

BIS Information Standards

Board Association of Colleges OSSWatch Society for Research in

Learning Analytics DoE & DOD, USA Surf, Netherlands Creative Commons OCWC MIT OpenCourseware

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Open Educational Resources

OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

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What are Open Educational Resources?

Term OER first introduced at UNESCO conference in 2002.

Many varying definitions of OER. Freely available digital materials

released under open licence, that can be used and re-purposed for teaching, learning, and research.

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Open Licences

Most commonly used OER open licences are Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization whose free legal tools provide a global standard for enabling the open sharing of knowledge and creativity.

(UK Open Government Licence aligns with Creative Commons Attribution Licence.)

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UK OER Programme

Funded by HEFCE between 2009 – 2012. Managed by JISC and HEA and supported by

CETIS. Invested over £10 million. Funded over 80 individual projects. Aimed at releasing OERs and embedding

sustainable open practice in institutions. All resource tagged #ukoer and deposited in

Jorum national repository http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: Jorum

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: Re:source

http://resource.blogs.scotcol.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: HumBox

http://humbox.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: Xpert

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

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Where to find OERs: Creative Commons Search

http://search.creativecommons.org/

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Where to find OERs: Open Courseware Consortium

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

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Where to find OERs: OER Commons

http://www.oercommons.org/

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Where to find OERs: OU OpenLearn

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

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Where to find OERs: MIT Opencourseware

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

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Contact InformationCETISWeb: http://jisc.cetis.ac.ukTwitter: jisccetisSlideshare:

Lorna M. CampbellEmail: [email protected]: lornamcampbellBlog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/

Sheila MacNeillEmail: [email protected]: sheilmcnBlog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/