Cetis is delighted to announce today that it will be developing a replacement for the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) on behalf of HEDIIP (Higher Education Data & Information Improvement Programme)
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
There are now nearly 90 people registered for the Cetis Conference on the 17th and 18th June in Bolton. Registration closes on Sunday. If you'd like to join us take a look at the programme and register via the conference web site.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/2014-cetis-conference/
As part of our work for Creative Commons on managing the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), Cetis today publish a new technical briefing paper “What is schema.org?”. LRMI is built on and expands schema.org so that it can be used to describe educationally significant characteristics of resources. At a technical level, the first step to understanding LRMI is to understand schema.org.
“What is schema.org?” describes the schema.org specification fo...
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Scotland Special Interest Group (SIG), in collaboration with Jisc RSC Scotland, SQA and Cetis will host Open Education, Open Scotland at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday, 3rd June 2014.
This free one-day event will provide an opportunity for ALT Scotland SIG members and the wider community to come together and share ideas and experiences of adopting and promoting open educational
Cetis has a long history of supporting all aspects of open innovation in education, including open standards, open source software, open policy, open data and open educational resources, so we are very pleased to join the Open Policy Network which launched worldwide this week with the following press release:
The Open Policy Network, or OPN for short, is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to support the creation, adoption, and implementat
