Data is a fact of life for everyone in higher education. And there’s a lot of it. Among other things, there’s data about students, staff, estates and research. At a national level data turns into metrics, benchmarks and performance indicators. There are percentages, proportions, a standard registration population, headcounts and full person equivalents. Data–driven decision […]
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The aim of this ongoing series of posts about the various #coursedata demonstrator applications is to give an overview of the different ways a standardised course data feed can be used. One of the use cases voiced when we were commissioning demonstration applications was that they might allow someone in a bus Queue in Bangalore […]
One of the issues I flagged up in the post about the w4 demonstrator was the lack of CPD vocabularies. Restricted vocabularies provide a way of making sure the meaning of data is clear. Whilst xcri-cap provides a simple clear structure for setting out data about courses, it doesn’t prescribe a particular vocabulary, as the […]
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#coursedata demonstrators – W4… what?
W4 = What When Where Widget. One of the questions that always gets asked about the xcri-cap feeds is “Who is taking them”.. it’s a bit of chicken and egg situation, in that in order to make it worthwhile for aggregators and search providers to accept data in a particular format there has to be […]
In my previous post I looked at how an institution might use their own xcri-cap feed to help advertise relevant courses to existing students. The benefits of using a standardised approach in that case is that the data structures in the specification has already been thought out and tested, so development time can be reduced […]
In this series of blog posts I’m looking at the Jisc #coursedata programme and in particular how the demonstrator projects are using the xcri-cap feeds produced by the 63 stage 2 Projects. xcri-cap stands for eXchanging Course Related Information, Course Advertising Profile. xcri-cap is the UK standard for describing course marketing information, and provides a […]
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#coursedata demonstrators overview
The xcri-cap 1.2 feed produced by each institution as an outputs of the #coursedata programme can be used in a number of ways. As with many interoperability specifications there is a great deal of benefit for the internal systems having a recognised standard to build against. By writing to the specification a canonical set of […]
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#coursedata demonstrated
Yesterday saw the final face to face programme meeting for the Jisc #coursedata projects. The programme is supporting 63 institutions to review and revise their coursedata processes and as one of the outputs produce an xcri-cap feed. I’ve talked a bit about the feed acceptance criteria in an earlier post but didn’t really expand on […]
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#coursedata – Feed acceptance
As Stage 2 of the JISC #coursedata programme http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/coursedata.aspx enters it’s final stages we will be starting to look at the project outputs. One requirement is the production of : a system generated XCRI-CAP 1.2 feed with a cool URI for institutional course provision, especially part time, online/distance, post graduate and CPD. But what does […]
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Actionable Insights
Adam Cooper has released another in the CETIS Learning Analytics series. Vol 1, No 5. What is Analytics? Definition and Essential Characteristics It neatly focusses on the practical application of Analytics which it describes as: “…the process of developing actionable insights through problem definition and the application of statistical models and analysis against existing and/or […]