Introduction to Cetis
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Open Scotland
An introduction to Cetis
Lorna M. Campbell
CETIS Assistant Director
#openscot
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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
Heriot Watt University
Five staff located in
Scotland.
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What does CETIS do?
CETIS are globally recognised as leading experts on
interoperability and technology standards in learning,
education and training. 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, and have been
instrumental in developing and promoting 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 and Jisc
Cetis have a long association with Jisc.
Funded as a project 2001 – 2005.
Funded as an Innovation Support Centre
2006 – 2013.
Provided Jisc with strategic technical input
and guidance.
Supported the Jisc development
programmes.
Represented the Jisc community on
international standards bodies.
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CETIS 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
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CETIS activities: Community Engagement
Open Educational Resources
Widgets
Semantic technology
QTI profiling
Competencies
eBooks
Analytics
MOOCs
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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
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CETIS activities: 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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CETIS activities: Partnerships
Open Knowledge
Foundation
ALT
ALT Scotland SIG
Jisc RSC Scotland
SQA
Jorum (Re:Source,
Scotland’s Colleges)
Social Media Week,
Glasgow
Glasgow Future Cities
Demonstrator
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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Contact Information
CETIS
Web: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
Twitter: jisccetis
Lorna M. Campbell
Email: lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
Twitter: lornamcampbell
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/