A TAACCCTful mandate? OER, SCORM and the $2bn grant
Last week’s announcement that the US Department of Labour is planning to allocate $2 billion in grant funds to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants programme...
View ArticleJISC CETIS OER Technical Mini-Projects Proposals and Discussion
The bids are in for the JISC CETIS OER Technical Mini Projects and there’s a lively discussion going on over at oer-discuss@jiscmail.com We’ve taken a new approach to the Technical Mini Projects call...
View ArticleUKOER 3 Technical Reflections
The Technical Requirements for the JISC / HEA OER 3 Programme remain unchanged from those established for UKOER 2. These requirements can be referred to here: OER 2 Technical Requirements. However,...
View ArticleJLeRN Hackday – Issues Identified
Last week I went to the hackday organised by the JLeRN team and CETIS to kick off Mimas’ JLeRN Experiment. It you haven’t come across JLeRN before, it’s a JISC funded exploratory project to build an...
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#cam12 Keynotes, backchannels and undercurrents
A few thoughts from the OER 12 conference held in Cambridge last week. Sadly I wasn’t able to stay for the whole conference but the first two days left me with plenty of food for thought. This year the...
View ArticleCC UK Guest Blog: Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
CETIS’ very own Phil Barker has been guest blogging over at Creative Commons UK about the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. Phil explains how: For the last six months or so the Learning Resource...
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inBloom to implement Learning Registry and LRMI
There have been a number of reports in the tech press this week about inBloom a new technology integration initiative for the US schools’ sector launched by the Shared Learning Collective. inBloom is...
View ArticleTaking up the challenge…
Yesterday, David Kernohan challenged the ukoer community on the oer-discuss mailing list to write a blog post in response to a spectacularly wrongheaded Educasue post titled; Ten Years Later: Why Open...
View ArticleAnother perspective on inBloom
Thanks to Pat Lockley for drawing my attention to Reuter’s interesting take on inBloom, the US K-12 development that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago. You can find the article here: K-12 student...
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New Activity Data and Paradata Briefing Paper
Cetis have published a new briefing paper on Activity Data and Paradata. The paper presents a concise overview of a range of approaches and specifications for recording and exchanging data generated by...
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