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 […]
I was delighted to be asked by Christine Geith, Karen Vignare and their team at Michigan State University to attend and facilitate at the Open Knowledge Convening linked to the AgShare2 project (which is supported by the Gates Foundation). I’ve long been an advocate of the way AgShare has taken almost wonkish open education ideas […]
Another brief interlude in the series of posts about #coursedata demonstrators. On Tuesday evening I nipped down to the #BuildBrighton hackspace for the monthly meetup of the Brighton Raspberry Pi user group. For those who’ve been living in a hole for the last year, the Raspberry Pi is a great little bare bones computer, very […]
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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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#BETT2013 – Superstar Physicists
This is a brief interlude in the #coursedata blog posts, as I’m just back from BETT 2013, the educational technology trade show. This year the show has a new home, at the Excel centre out in the East End of London… unfortunately this is reached by the pretend train service that runs on DLR (Docklands […]
As previously mentioned on this blog, Jisc are working with partners on the HEFCE-funded Changing the Learning Landscape initiative. It’s all full steam ahead now, with delegates well into the Strategic Change programme, and sixteen institutions already benefiting from consultancy support from the partners. The Higher Education Academy are poised to announce a series of […]
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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 […]
We ran a series of webinars in February-May 2013 to disseminate and discuss the work of the Developing digital literacies projects. Each hour-long webinar discussed an aspect of the programme’s work. The webinars were free and open to all, and recordings of them are available. Events in this series: Current issues and approaches in developing […]