Community Learning and Development SIG

CLD SIG, January 2013

An Introduction to CETIS

Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill

CETIS Assistant Directors


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.


About CETIS

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

Funded by JISC since 2001.


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.


CETIS mission statement

Develop, and facilitate effective implementations and use of, the open standards needed to: implement flexible and adaptive learning environments, learning services and learning resources; increase the choice of available systems and software by helping to maintain a healthy open market; and support the development of the capabilities and good practices within the UK F/HE community.


What CETIS does: Programme Support

Provide strategic technical advice to Jisc. Advise on development programmes’ technical

approaches and directions. Monitor technical developments and emergent

issues. Identify common practice. Synthesise and disseminate technical outputs.


What CETIS does: Programme Support

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


What CETIS does: 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


What CETIS does: Community Engagement

Special Interest Groups

(2001 – 2006) Accessibility Assessment Educational Content Enterprise Metadata & Digital

Repositories Porfolio Pedagogy Forum Life Long Learning

Working Groups

(2006 – present) OER Widgets Semantic technology QTI profile Competencies eBooks Analytics MOOC technology


What CETIS does: 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



Interactive visualisation of twitter conversations.



Connections & relationships between people in a network.


What CETIS does: Communications

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk


What CETIS does: Briefing papers


What CETIS does: Synthesis & Horizon scanning


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.


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


Digital Literacies

What is digital literacy?

“By digital literacy we mean those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society” (JISC)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/developingdigitalliteraciesprog.aspx


Digital learning environments


Digital LiteraciesDigital Participation Information Literacy

*Civic role and responsibilities*Community engagement*Networks (human and digital)*Technological affordances

*High level concepts and perceptions influencing practice*Staff & student engagement and development*Effective development and use of infrastructure

Curriculum and Course Design Learning Environment

*Constructive alignment*Curriculum representations, course management, pedagogical innovation*Recruitment and marketing*Reporting, data, analytics

*Physical and digital*Pedagogical and social*Research and enquiry*Staff and Resources


Contact Information

CETISWeb: http://jisc.cetis.ac.ukTwitter: jisccetis

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

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

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