The project phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative is coming to a close with the successful transfer of governance for the specification and community engagement passing to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Over the past year or so Cetis have been engaged by Creative Commons to provide technical leadership for the third and final phase of the LRMI project, one of the goals for that phase has been to find a suitable long term home for the sp
As part of its work on the Learning Analytics Community Exchange project, Cetis is organising a one day summit event to broker collaboration around the idea of an Open Learning Analytics platform – based on principles of modularity, open architectures, and open standards – in Amsterdam on December 1st 2014, collaborating with colleagues from the University of Amsterdam and the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative.
The time is right to gather a European cr...
Since August Lorna Campbell has published ten case studies on how projects have implemented the Learning Resource Metadata specification.
On her blog Lorna says:
These are case studies of a number of LRMI implementation projects that were funded between 2013 – 2014. Ten different OER platforms received small grants from the Gates and Hewlett Foundations to implement the LRMI specification and share their experiences with other developers.
The case studies
If holidays got in the way of you responding to the consultation on the new subject coding scheme - don't panic! The Open consultation period has now been extended until the 25th September 2014.
The consultation is seeking views on the following areas:
Uses
Impact and Adoption
Governance and
Design
Have your say at: http://subjectcoding.wordpress.com/...
The latest issue of the Cetis newsletter is now available. This summer issue includes updates on the subject coding project with HEDIIP and a number of LRMI implementation case studies.
The newsletter is available on the Cetis-announce jiscmail site.
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