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Open Educational Resources Hack Day

editor — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

The Open Educational Resources Hack Day event was designed to bring together those interested in rapidly developing tools and prototypes to solve problems related to OER. Whilst there is a growing interest in the potential for learning resources created and shared openly by academics and teachers, a number of technical challenges still exist, including resource retrieval, evaluation and reuse. This event aimed to explore some of these problem areas by partnering developers with the creators and users of OER to identify needs and potential solutions.

The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event

editor — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS.

The stated intention of this working meeting organised by JISC CETIS, and held at the University of Bolton, UK, on 12 January 2010 was to:

e-Framework Implements New Workplan

editor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research.

The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'

editor — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues.

About KIDMM

The British Computer Society [1], which in 2007 celebrates 50 years of existence, has a self-image around engineering, software, and systems design and implementation. However, within the BCS there are over fifty Specialist Groups (SGs); among these, some have a major focus on 'informatics', or the content of information systems.

JISC CETIS Conference, 2006

editor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.