July newsletter
In case you missed it the July newsletter is available on Cetis-announce: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=cetis-announce;525fe911.1308p
Cetis relaunches today
From today, the of 1st August, Cetis relaunches as the Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards. The “new” Cetis will be working with public and private sector clients who need our expert advice on matters of technology strategy and innovation, and standards and interoperability. To mark the relaunch we have a new web site which highlights our work and expertise.
Our previous incarnation as a Jisc Innovation Support Centre finishe...
June newsletter
Our June newsletter is available on our cetis-announce pages. In this issue there is a position paper by Lorna Campbell on the benefits of Open ahead of the Open Scotland meeting, Phil Barker considers ePub metadata and Sheila MacNeill reports from the inuagural meeting of the Open Badges (Scotland) Working Group.
Open Scotland meeting presentations and report
The slides and recordings from the Open Scotland meeting are now available from our wiki and our YouTube channel. On her blog Lorna Campbell reports on the discussions that took place including three actions and deliverables which will be taken forward as a result of the meeting.
A key action is to:
Establish a working group, similar to Wales and the Nordic countries, that can stimulate research in the area of open education and inform future Government wh
Assessment standard stimulates 250m investment
Since 2006 Wilbert has been leading the community in the development of the IMS QTI v2.1 specification. A number of national assessment projects are now developing tools with the assessment standard at their core.
There are two main benefits to standardising online assessments. Firstly, it means that having spent time developing good multiple choice questions that discriminate well between candidates, teachers don't need to re type those questions when th...