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 XCRI and reflect on what has worked and why, and where we think these activities are going next.;xNLx;;xNLx;Image: Mark Stubbs middle earth map of course information
a standard format for transferring information about people (learners, staff, academics) between college systems (Student Records, VLE, Library Management System, etc).
Special Interest Group forming a community of practice.
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.
Standard definition of how systems manage the exchange of information that describes people, groups and memberships within the context of learning.
Continued discussions begun at the Enterprise SIG around the issue of standardising course descriptions
One of the JISC funded Distributed e-Learning projects aiming to map curricula to facilitate student progression
Group formed to investigate the practicalities of sharing course information
Cross-institutional project at London Metropolictan University to integrate information from many of the university MIS systems, such as student records and finance systems using a service oriented approach.
One of the projects in the e-Learning Framework and Tools programme. Aimed to define a vocabulary and appropriate technology bindings (e.g. XML, RDF) for describing course-related information that encompasses course marketing, course quality assurance, enrolment and reporting requirements.
Aimed to define a reference model utilizing a framework of services to support a canonical business process to support course validation.
