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...

May 2013 Newsletter

Cetis publishes a monthly newsletter summarising the most read staff blog posts. The latest version of our newsletter includes items on our new Activity and Paradata briefing, the UK Learning Analytics Summer Institute meeting and how QTI v2.1 implementations are a key part of many international assessment projects. The newsletter is available at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CETIS-ANNOUNCE;121b6937.1306p To receive a copy of the news