Joint Metadata & Digital Repositories & EC SIG meeting, 29 June 2007, University of Strathclyde

29 June 2007, University of Strathclyde

Joint MDR/EC SIG meeting

Intros Background information on JISC/CETIS Aims of the day

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JISC CETIS Service Service since August 2006 - launched November 2006 Partnership between Universities of Bolton & Strathclyde,

Heriot-Watt and CRA Service advices on the strategic, technical and pedagogic

implications of educational technology Provides strategic and technical advice to JISC e-Learning

development programmes Programme support Community building -SIGs

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Overview: JISC CETIS Service

Represents the JISC on international standardisation initiatives (IMS, BSI etc)

Works with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning, especially through Special Interest Groups

Supports the current JISC eLearning Programme, e.g. eFramework, Design for Learning, & RRT

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Special Interest Groups

Accessibility SIG

Assessment SIG

Educational Content (EC) SIG

E-Portfolio SIG

Enterprise SIG

Metadata and Digital Repositories (MDR) SIG

Pedagogy Forum

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JISC CETIS SIGs/Forums

Metadata & Digital Repositories SIG, run by Phil Barker /Neil Fegen (Heriot Watt): for people interested in the process of describing and sharing educational resources

Educational Content SIG (ECSIG), run by Sheila MacNeill (Strathclyde): for people working with educational content related interoperability standards

Accessibility SIG, run by Sharon Perry (Bolton): for people interested in supporting a learner's individual needs and preferences

Assessment SIG, run by Rowin Young (Strathclyde): for people interested in electronic assessment of student knowledge and learning

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JISC CETIS SIGs/Forums

E-Portfolio SIG, run by Helen Richardson & Simon Grant (JISC CETIS / Centre for Recording Achievement): for people interested in e-portfolios and e-PDP (Personal Development Planning)

Enterprise SIG, run by Vashti Zarach (Bolton): for people interested in learner data, course information and educational systems integration

Pedagogy Forum, run by Lisa Corley (Bolton): for people interested in ensuring that the 'learning' is put into learning technology specifications

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SIG Communication & web presence

Blogs: All JISC CETIS staff have workblogs, these are used to populate front page of JISC CETIS website.

Discussion lists: Each SIG has a JISCMail discussion list Wikis: Each SIG has area on the JISC CETIS wiki - links to relevant

standards, specs, projects etc, meeting archives etc.

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29 June 2007, University of Strathclyde

Further information

Website: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ Community wiki: http://wiki.cetis.ac.

uk/CETIS_Wiki MDR SIG: http://wiki.cetis.ac.

uk/Metadata EC SIG: http://wiki.cetis.ac.

uk/Educational_Content

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What today is about How are people/projects using tools, services,

vles, repositories to create, share, store content?

What are the implications/challenges?

What standards/services does our community need?

What can the SIGs do to aid the community?

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Agenda 10.30 - 10.45 Introduction & overview of the day, Sheila MacNeill &

Fegen JISC CETIS

10.45 – 11.25 David Davies, University of Warwick

11.25 – 12.05 Charles Duncan, Intrallect, SRU tool demo

12.05 - 12.30 Sue Manuel, University of Loughborough, PEDESTAL

12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH

1.30 – 2.10Caroline Breslin/Andrew Wodehouse University of Strathclyde, DIDET

2.10 – 2.50 Dr Michael Gardner, University of Essex, Resource Browser

2.50 – 3.05BREAK

3.05 – 3.45Julie Allinson, UKOLN, SWORD

3.45 – 4.00Closing comments