Jisc commissions Cetis to undertake educational technology standards work

For over a decade Jisc funded Cetis to promote and support the uptake of educational technology specifications and standards for the benefit of UK Universities and Colleges. Today we can announce that Jisc has commissioned Cetis to undertake a new package of work that combines activities to secure value from Jisc's previous investment with other activities intended to identify opportunities for Jisc in the future. Adam Cooper, Cetis co-director said: We...

New paper: Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions

Today Cetis is publishing a white paper exploring how institutions can benefit from MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) within their own provision. This paper by Li Yuan and Stephen Powell follows their popular paper MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education published in March 2013. The Beyond MOOCs paper discusses how lessons learned from running MOOCs can be applied within institutions to offer flexible opportunities for learners and ne...

Cetis Becomes a Supplier to the Government Cloud Programme

Cetis has had two services accepted by the Cabinet Office G-Cloud Programme. The programme seeks to gain benefits for the UK Government in terms of cost saving, flexibility, reduced environmental impact, and a dynamic and responsive supplier marketplace. Cloud computing refers to any computing capability that is delivered as a service over the Internet, although the term is also sometimes used to refer to adopting a hybrid approach where similar technolog

Talking digital textbooks in Shanghai

Last week Cetis’s Li Yuan and Tore Hoel from Oslo and Akershus University College ran a workshop on "Shaping the future of digital textbooks" at the "International Open Forum on the Development of e-Textbook" http://www.etesbs.org/ in Shanghai. The workshop, based on the work of the eTernity (European Textbooks Reusability Networking and Operability) project http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/project/etextbook in which Cetis is a partner, was well received a