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:
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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 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
A quick round up of Cetis news for the last couple of months is now available in our October/November newsletter. Posts by Lorna Campbell, Adam Cooper, Brian Kelly, Wilbert Kraan, Simon Grant and David Sherlock discuss a range of topics from the RSC Scotland Open Education Forum and Eduwiki 13 to analytics interoperability, standardisation in europe and etextbooks.
Cetis newsletter October/November 2013
We welcome two old friends into Cetis this week. Lorna Campbell will return to her role as Assistant Director and Brian Kelly joins us as an Innovation Advocate.
Until recently Brian worked at UKOLN, frequently contributing to Cetis's events, publications and discussions, as well as maintaining his own presence through the UK Web Focus blog. At Cetis he will apply his extensive experience and expertise to our work in standards, accessibility, social medi