In case you missed it. Our newsletter for February and March 2014 is now available
This issue features five posts for open education week, thoughts on learning analytics interoperability, and a new project on the LMRI metadata standard.
Over the next few weeks Lorna Campbell will be giving a number of presentations on the Open Scotland initiative. Look out for Lorna at the following events:
“Open Scotland and the Open Knowledge Foundation" at What I Know Is: A research symposium on online collaborative knowledge building, University of Stirling, 19th March 2014
Open Scotland Webinar (with Joe Wilson, SQA) 2nd April, 12.00 - 12.45. Hosted by Jisc RSC Scotland,
“Open Scotland: Promoting ope
We are delighted to announce that Cetis has been commissioned by Creative Commons to help manage the third phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI). The project, which builds on the work of Schema.org, aims to support the discovery of relevant education resources on the web. LRMI is co-led by Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)—now the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers—so Phil Barker a
This week Cetis staff are supporting Open Education Week by publishing a series of blog posts about open education activities. Over the last few years Cetis staff have published widely on open education particularly OERs (Open Educational Resources) and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
In the first post this week Brian Kelly considers Open education and the uptake of Wikipedia in UK universities and colleges.
As the week progresses look out for posts
Next week Cetis staff are involved in two sessions at the Jisc Digital Festival in Birmingham.
On Tuesday 11th March Wilbert Kraan will be presenting a Tech Demo on “Introducing a sourcing maturity self-assessment: how to improve the quality of your sourcing decisions.” with Bert van Zomeren from SURF. The session will demonstrate a self assessment tool for making decisions about choosing cloud services and will take place in Demo Pod 1 between 11.30 – 1
