Cetis 14 conference reflections by Marieke Guy

The Cetis conference took place in Bolton on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Over 90 delegates from the UK (and Norway!) gathered in a sunny and unusually warm Bolton to discuss "Building the Digital Institution".  There seemed to be a real buzz about this year's event, and it was great to meet old friends and make new ones. Over the next few days links will appear on the programme pages to the session presentations, and YouTube recordings of Phil Richar

Cetis to Run New Subject Coding Project for HEDIIP

Cetis is delighted to announce today that it will be developing a replacement for the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) on behalf of HEDIIP (Higher Education Data & Information Improvement Programme) Subject coding is one of the key building blocks of student data that ought to have sector-wide and consistent applicability. The current method of classifying subjects is based on a scheme known as the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS). JACS has been

Last call for #cetis14 conference

Last call for #cetis14 conference
There are now nearly 90 people registered for the Cetis Conference on the 17th and 18th June in Bolton. Registration closes on Sunday. If you'd like to join us take a look at the programme and register via the conference web site. http://www.cetis.ac.uk/2014-cetis-conference/

Announcing “What is schema.org?”, a new technical briefing paper from Cetis

As part of our work for Creative Commons on managing the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), Cetis today publish a new technical briefing paper “What is schema.org?”. LRMI is built on and expands schema.org so that it can be used to describe educationally significant characteristics of resources. At a technical level, the first step to understanding LRMI is to understand schema.org. “What is schema.org?” describes the schema.org specification fo...

Open Education, Open Scotland

The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Scotland Special Interest Group (SIG), in collaboration with Jisc RSC Scotland, SQA and Cetis will host Open Education, Open Scotland at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday, 3rd June 2014. This free one-day event will provide an opportunity for ALT Scotland SIG members and the wider community to come together and share ideas and experiences of adopting and promoting open educational