A quick round up of Cetis news for the last couple of months is now available in our October/November newsletter. Posts by Lorna Campbell, Adam Cooper, Brian Kelly, Wilbert Kraan, Simon Grant and David Sherlock discuss a range of topics from the RSC Scotland Open Education Forum and Eduwiki 13 to analytics interoperability, standardisation in europe and etextbooks.
Cetis newsletter October/November 2013
Last week Lorna Campbell spent two days in Paris at the Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference. She gave a couple of presentations on the Open Scotland event in June and the Technology challenges from the Jisc / HEA UKOER Programmes.
Over on her blog Lorna also reports on some of the talks she attended. Unsurprisingly concepts of Open Education and Open Educational Resources were discussed at length along side newer ideas like "Opening Up Education
We welcome two old friends into Cetis this week. Lorna Campbell will return to her role as Assistant Director and Brian Kelly joins us as an Innovation Advocate.
Until recently Brian worked at UKOLN, frequently contributing to Cetis's events, publications and discussions, as well as maintaining his own presence through the UK Web Focus blog. At Cetis he will apply his extensive experience and expertise to our work in standards, accessibility, social medi
A short paper,Engaging Developers in Standards Development; the Cetis Code Bash Approach by Lorna Campbell and Adam Copper is now available from the Cetis Publications site.
The paper discusses how Cetis Codebash events help to achieve practical interoperability by testing new specifications and standards. Drawing on years of experience includes a checklist for running a successful Code bash, including who to invite and the ground rules to establish.
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