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Scottish FE Sector Management Information Systems Integration Options 27 Sep 2017 3:06 PM (7 years ago)

November 2013 – February 2014

Cetis was commissioned to undertake technical modelling work of the role of existing and currently developing Management Information Systems (MIS) deployments and to consider alternative future deployments, together with their advantages and disadvantages. This work identified existing and alternative models of operation, including a central software service given the changing context as Scottish FE transitions from 41 institutions to 15 regional colleges through a number of mergers and federations. The methodology developed was based the Enterprise Architecture approach to help businesses and educational organisations develop more efficient IT systems and processes.

Contact: Stephen Powell and Bill Olivier

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LRMI (Learning Resource Metadata Initiative) 27 Sep 2017 3:04 PM (7 years ago)

January – October 2014

In early 2014 Cetis was commissioned by Creative Commons to help manage the third phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative project (LRMI). The initiative, which builds on the work of Schema.org, aims to support the discovery of relevant education resources on the web. LMRI is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and jointly lead by Creative Commons and the Association of American Publishers with the aim of making it easier to publish, discover, and deliver high quality educational resources on the web. With input from a wide range of organisations, from both the open and commercial spheres, involved in publishing and using educational resource LRMI successfully proposed additions to schema.org (an initiative of Google, Yahoo and Bing) allowing the description of educationally important properties of resources to be marked-up in web pages in a manner that is easily understood by search engines. This enables people to create search engines that support the filtering search results based on criteria such as their match to a specific part of a curriculum, or the age of the students, or one of several other characteristics.

After the completion of this project we remain represented on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative LRMI Task Group

Key contact: Phil Barker
More information: LRMI terms

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HEDIIP New Subject Coding Project 27 Sep 2017 3:03 PM (7 years ago)

June 2014 – July 2106

Subject coding is one of the key building blocks of student data that ought to have sector-wide and consistent applicability. The current method of classifying subjects is based on a scheme known as the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS). JACS has been in use for a number of years and now requires a major review.

Cetis is undertaking a project to develop a replacement for the JACS system which meets the needs of a broader group of stakeholders and reflects the diverse and dynamic nature of higher education in the twenty-first century. This builds on the JACS report published in 2013 which considered the varying requirements and uses of subject coding in HE and sets out options for the development of a replacement for JACS.

More information: HEDIIP Subject Coding

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Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) Project 27 Sep 2017 3:01 PM (7 years ago)

January 2014

The Learning Analytics Community Exchange is an EU project in the 7th Framework Programme involving nine partners across Europe which started in 2014. LACE partners are passionate about the opportunities afforded by current and future views of learning analytics (LA) and educational data mining (EDM) but are concerned about missed opportunities, undesirable consequences of mis-application, investment funding failing to realise value, market failure, etc. The 30 month project aims to integrate disparate communities working on LA and EDM from the schools, workplace, and universities sectors, by sharing viable and effective solutions to real problems through creation of an evidence base, publishing white papers and running workshops and events.

More information: LACE Project

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Free Webinar on new Higher Education Coding Scheme for Subjects (HECoS) 13 Apr 2015 11:40 AM (9 years ago)

A free webinar by the  HEDIIP Subject Coding Project on HECoS, the new Higher Education Coding Scheme for subjects to replace JACS will take place on the 23rd April. The webinar is hosted by Jisc, the topic of subject coding aligns with Jisc’s work with the sector on course data and its use in supporting the student experience and business intelligence.
This webinar is part of the consultation around the new coding scheme, and will include a description of why it is being developed, how it differs from JACS3, and how organisations can provide feedback on the work so far. The webinar will be at 11:30 on Thursday 23rd April and will last approximately one hour, the registration URL is https://www.eventsforce.net/jisc/395/home.
About the HEDIIP Subject Coding Project
The Higher Education Data and Information Improvement Programme (HEDIIP) includes a project to consult with stakeholders in UK higher education to develop a new subject coding scheme to replace JACS3. In addition to seeking an approach that is sustainable and better suited to consistent application, one of the aims of the new scheme is to enable Higher Education Providers to streamline the handling of subject classification in regulatory returns to multiple bodies.
The project is progressing in two stages. The final report from Stage 1 of this work, covering requirements and impact analysis, was published in the autumn of 2014. Stage 2 consultation is concerned with draft versions of: the full set of subject terms for classifying programmes and modules, a governance model, and an adoption plan.
The project welcomes feedback from any individual interested in the the subject coding of HE courses. Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies, and similar organisations, are invited to provide formal organisational responses covering all aspects of the published drafts, but the project would like to draw your attention to the subject scheme and the governance model, in particular the recommendations concerning specialist vocabularies.
Access to the consultation drafts, response templates, and support documentation is via the consultation web site: https://subjectcoding.wordpress.com​

Phil Barker (HEDIIP project)

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