One of the advantages of having being involved with JISC for a number of years (as a project and a service) is the opportunity to reflect on some activities that we've been involved in for some time. We thought it would be interesting to take the long view of some of our involvement with XCRI and reflect on what has worked and why, and where we think these activities are going next.;xNLx;;xNLx;Image: Mark Stubbs middle earth map of course information
a standard format for transferring information about people (learners, staff, academics) between college systems (Student Records, VLE, Library Management System, etc).
Special Interest Group forming a community of practice.
initiative by the JISC and Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) to build a common approach to Service Oriented Architectures for e-learning.
Standard definition of how systems manage the exchange of information that describes people, groups and memberships within the context of learning.
Continued discussions begun at the Enterprise SIG around the issue of standardising course descriptions
One of the JISC funded Distributed e-Learning projects aiming to map curricula to facilitate student progression
Group formed to investigate the practicalities of sharing course information
Cross-institutional project at London Metropolictan University to integrate information from many of the university MIS systems, such as student records and finance systems using a service oriented approach.
One of the projects in the e-Learning Framework and Tools programme. Aimed to define a vocabulary and appropriate technology bindings (e.g. XML, RDF) for describing course-related information that encompasses course marketing, course quality assurance, enrolment and reporting requirements.
Aimed to define a reference model utilizing a framework of services to support a canonical business process to support course validation.
Continued to explore the theme of e-admin with a presentation from Paul Walk discussing a large project to integrate institutional information in London Met University, and a presentation from the JISC Information Environment Service Registry picking up on the theme of archiving identified the previous year.
XCRI gave a presentation at the Systems strand, along with COVARM, a project looking at course validation, and Pathways for Progression, a project developing a tool for creating records to describe courses.
XCRI community release a Lightweight Course Advertising Profile v1.0
Team made up of CETIS, ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity and KaiNao staff
JISC funded a number of projects to explore, describe and pilot new approaches to aspects of the course management lifecycle, from specification through validation to description and course advertising.
shows how its possible to deploy an aggregator setup that pulls in courses from several providers, and offers a user interface with basic features such as searching, browsing, bookmarking, tags and so on.
Aimed to support existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven practices, technologies, standards and services
Projects focussed on a wide range of systems and business processes that support curriculum activities
Aimed to deliver Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation (SSBR) services to the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme and its constituent projects.
CEN (Comite Europeen de Normalisation - European Committee for Standardization) endorsed both a Workshop Agreement and a commitment to develop it into a European Norm (EN) for Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO).
The Information Standards Board (ISB), part of the UK's Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) approved XCRI-CAP 1.1 as the UK eProspectus standard
An Enterprise SIG meeting with XCRI as a focus. Includes presentations charting XCRI development, activites and future directions
BSI convened a panel to look at adding a UK "national annex and potential residual standard" to the MLO standard (EN 15982);
BSI panel to look at adding a UK "national annex and potential residual standard" to the MLO standard (EN 15982)
From September 2012, Universities and Colleges will be required to provide Key information about each course for students (KIS) to help them choose what and where to study.
Funded under JISC’s Institutional Innovation Programme, porvided a forum for projects working on initiatives using XCRI and XCRI-CAP
HEFCE announce HEAR - a report that will be issued to students in 2012/13 to provide detailed information about a student's learning and achievement to supplement the traditional degree classification.
Funding to help the HE and FE in HE sectors prepare for increasing demands on course data.
Metadata for Learning Opportunities - Advertising (MLO-AD) is a European standardized model addressing metadata sufficient for advertising a learning opportunity.
Two parts of a draft British Standard (BS), "BS 8581 - Exchanging course related information – Course advertising profile" released for public comment
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