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SLA SIG, May 2013
An Introduction to CETIS
Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill
CETIS Assistant Directors
SLA SIG, May 2013
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.
CLD SIG, January 2013
About CETIS
Partnership between:
University of Bolton
(10)
University of
Strathclyde (3)
Heriot Watt University
(1)
Funded by Jisc since
2001.
SLA SIG, May 2013
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.
SLA SIG, May 2013
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.
SLA SIG, May 2013
CETIS activities: Programme Support
Programmes CETIS has supported include:
Open Educational Resources
Developing Digital Literacies
Assessment and Feedback
Distributed Virtual Learning Environments
Customer Relationship Management
Curriculum Design and Delivery
Digital Repositories
SLA SIG, May 2013
What activities: Standards
CETIS represents UK F/HE on a wide range of
international standards bodies including:
British Standards Institute
International Standards Organisation
IMS Global Learning Consortium
CEN/ISS Learning Technology Workshop
IEEE
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
World Wide Web Consortium
CLD SIG, January 2013
CETIS activities: Community Engagement
Recent working groups:
 Open Educational Resources
 Widgets
 Semantic technology
 QTI profile
 Competencies
 eBooks
 Analytics
 MOOC technology
CLD SIG, January 2013
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
CLD SIG, January 2013
CETIS activities: Communications
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
SLA SIG, May 2013
CETIS activities: Briefing Papers
SLA SIG, May 2013
CETIS activities: Synthesis & Horizon Scanning
SLA SIG, May 2013
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.
SLA SIG, May 2013
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
SLA SIG, May 2013
Open Educational Resources
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
SLA SIG, May 2013
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.
SLA SIG, May 2013
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.)
SLA SIG, May 2013
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/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: Jorum
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: Re:source
http://resource.blogs.scotcol.ac.uk/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: HumBox
http://humbox.ac.uk/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: Xpert
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: Creative Commons Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: Open Courseware
Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: OU OpenLearn
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
SLA SIG, May 2013
Where to find OERs: MIT Opencourseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
SLA SIG, May 2013
Contact Information
CETIS
Web: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
Twitter: jisccetis
Slideshare:
Lorna M. Campbell
Email: lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
Twitter: lornamcampbell
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/
Sheila MacNeill
Email: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk
Twitter: sheilmcn
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/

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  • 1. SLA SIG, May 2013 An Introduction to CETIS Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill CETIS Assistant Directors
  • 2. SLA SIG, May 2013 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.
  • 3. CLD SIG, January 2013 About CETIS Partnership between: University of Bolton (10) University of Strathclyde (3) Heriot Watt University (1) Funded by Jisc since 2001.
  • 4. SLA SIG, May 2013 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.
  • 5. SLA SIG, May 2013 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.
  • 6. SLA SIG, May 2013 CETIS activities: Programme Support Programmes CETIS has supported include: Open Educational Resources Developing Digital Literacies Assessment and Feedback Distributed Virtual Learning Environments Customer Relationship Management Curriculum Design and Delivery Digital Repositories
  • 7. SLA SIG, May 2013 What activities: Standards CETIS represents UK F/HE on a wide range of international standards bodies including: British Standards Institute International Standards Organisation IMS Global Learning Consortium CEN/ISS Learning Technology Workshop IEEE Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Learning Resource Metadata Initiative World Wide Web Consortium
  • 8. CLD SIG, January 2013 CETIS activities: Community Engagement Recent working groups:  Open Educational Resources  Widgets  Semantic technology  QTI profile  Competencies  eBooks  Analytics  MOOC technology
  • 9. CLD SIG, January 2013 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
  • 10. CLD SIG, January 2013 CETIS activities: Communications http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
  • 11. SLA SIG, May 2013 CETIS activities: Briefing Papers
  • 12. SLA SIG, May 2013 CETIS activities: Synthesis & Horizon Scanning
  • 13. SLA SIG, May 2013 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.
  • 14. SLA SIG, May 2013 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
  • 15. SLA SIG, May 2013 Open Educational Resources OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
  • 16. SLA SIG, May 2013 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.
  • 17. SLA SIG, May 2013 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.)
  • 18. SLA SIG, May 2013 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/
  • 19. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
  • 20. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: Re:source http://resource.blogs.scotcol.ac.uk/
  • 21. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: HumBox http://humbox.ac.uk/
  • 22. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: Xpert http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
  • 23. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: Creative Commons Search http://search.creativecommons.org/
  • 24. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: Open Courseware Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
  • 25. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
  • 26. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: OU OpenLearn http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
  • 27. SLA SIG, May 2013 Where to find OERs: MIT Opencourseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
  • 28. SLA SIG, May 2013 Contact Information CETIS Web: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk Twitter: jisccetis Slideshare: Lorna M. Campbell Email: lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com Twitter: lornamcampbell Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/ Sheila MacNeill Email: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk Twitter: sheilmcn Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/