One of the advantages of having being involved with JISC for a number of years (as a project and a service) is the opportunity to reflect on some activities that we've been involved in for some time. We thought it would be interesting to take the long view of some of our involvement with learning environments and reflect on what has worked and why, and where we think these activities are going next.
Oleg Liber, CETIS Director established a peer to peer learning environment in Colloquia with Bill Olivier and Phil Beauvoir
Report, funded by JISC, by Sandy Britain and Oleg Liber
XML format specification to support exchange of data
Sharable Content Object Reference Model. Internationally recognized collection of standards for exchanging Internet based e-Learning content
Explored developments to test, evaluate, and prove (or in some circumstances disprove) the generic deployment of technology in support of improved learning.
Research study commissioned to critically analyse the issues associated with linking Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and digital libraries. The study undertook a literature review and a consultation exercise with a wide range of stakeholders including learners and a variety of staff across FE and HE institutions, government departments and bodies and commercial organisations.
Known as the EC SIG this community based group met regularly to explore issues and share information around educational content.
Provides the functionality to describe and package learning materials, such as an individual course or a collection of courses, into interoperable, distributable packages. Content Packaging addresses the description, structure, and location of online learning materials and the definition of some particular content types.
Programme which aimed to respond to the need to support learners as they move between institutions of Further and Higher Education, and between Higher and Further Education.
Final specification released.
CETIS contributed to the content of the JISC Infonet infokit on creating a manageld learning environment
Linking Digital Libraries with VLEs(DiVLE) programme. Aimed to explore the technical, pedagogical and organisational issues of linking digital library systems and VLEs.
Still the current version. Resolved some ambiguities of previous versions. information about success status for multiple learning objectives or competencies across content objects and across courses for the same learner within the same learning management system.
JISC funded follow on study from the 1999 paper on VLEs by Sandy Britain and Oleg Liber
initiative by the JISC and Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) to build a common approach to Service Oriented Architectures for e-learning.
Developed technologies and explored cultural and organisational issues around the use of technology to support lifelong learning, particularly with regional and subject communities.
The Enterprise Specification defined the data formats for exchanging basic student and course data between systems, but did not specify how to exchange information. The Enterprise Services Specification defines how to manage the exchange of information between systems.
Several presentations and discussions focussng on PLEs
Project team based at CETIS aimed to develop a definition, scope and a reference model for PLEs and developed desktop and portal based prototypes.
The Personal Learning and Research Environment working group recommended that work should continue on research, development, and deployment of a prototype environment.
Standard for digital educational content and e-Learning systems.
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites.
Planning and designing learning in a world of widgets and Web 2.0
Surveyed a group of market-leading widget user agents with the aim to inform the requirements of the Widgets 1.0: Requirements document.
Developed in anticipation of a formal specification. Enabled quick integration of externally hosted tools into Learning Management Systems.
Interview by Christina Smart with Scott Wilson about the potential for using widgets in educational technologies
tSupporting institutions to ransform how they deliver and support learning across a curriculum area through the effective use of technology, in response to a particular challenge faced by the discipline(s), department(s) or institution(s) involved.
First meeting of working group formed after discussions at CETIS Conference meeting 2008
Technology change in HE and FE: an SOA approachaimed at people with responsibility for strategic planning, deployment, and implementation of IT systems, Sarah Holyfield and Christina Smart, Editors
The addition of Simple Sequencing turned out to be quite a radical change that caused implementors significant problems. Most people stuck to 1.2, which had an impact on it's ongoing use in HE
Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized.
Composing your Learning Environment: new models
ADL Position paper by Dan Rehack for CETIS event Future of Interoperability Standards Meeting 2010
Basic LTI is a subset or profile of the full LTI v1.0 specification.
By Sheila MacNeill and Wilbert Kraan
Service-oriented approach which allows remote tools and content to be integrated into a Learning Management System (LMS)
Distributed learning environments - re-inventing the VLE
Investigated how institutions can widen the functionality of their VLEs in an interoperable way, to meet identified user needs.
Chuck Severance offered an update on developments with simple outcomes and LTI.
Integrating and Subverting Corporate Systems for Educational Purposes
Three Strand A projects from the current JISC funded DVLE programme, took part in an online showcase to share their outcomesfrom their six month development phase
Two day event provided widget building tutorials from the Apache Wookie (incubating ) team, examples of developments of institutional approaches to building and deploying a range widgets and mobile applications from the JISC DVLE programme programme and the iTech project
Stephen Vickers ( University of Edinburgh) provided an overview of the integrations the ceLTIc project have been able to achieve using basic LTI.
The W2C and SLEP projects gave an overview of the work around developing access to greater and more personalised information for students.
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