Introduction to Cetis, presented by Lorna M. Campbell at the Open Scotland Summit, Edinburgh, 27th June 2013.

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Open Scotland
An introduction to Cetis
Lorna M. Campbell
CETIS Assistant Director
#openscot

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What is CETIS?
 Centre for
 Educational
 Technology and
 Interoperability
 Standards
A national Innovation Support Centre providing advice
to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on
educational technology and standards.

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About CETIS
Partnership between:
University of Bolton
Heriot Watt University
Five staff located in
Scotland.

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What does CETIS do?
 CETIS are globally recognised as leading experts on
interoperability and technology standards in learning,
education and training. We work with our clients and
partners to develop policy and strategy, providing
impartial and independent advice on technology and
standards. CETIS are active in the development and
implementation of open standards and represent our
clients in national, European and global standards
bodies and industry consortia, and have been
instrumental in developing and promoting the adoption
of technology and standards for course advertising,
open education resources, assessment, and student
data management, opening new markets and creating
opportunities for innovation.

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Cetis and Jisc
 Cetis have a long association with Jisc.
 Funded as a project 2001 – 2005.
 Funded as an Innovation Support Centre
2006 – 2013.
 Provided Jisc with strategic technical input
and guidance.
 Supported the Jisc development
programmes.
 Represented the Jisc community on
international standards bodies.

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CETIS activities: Standards
CETIS represents UK F/HE on a wide range of
international standards bodies including:
British Standards Institute
International Standards Organisation
IMS Global Learning Consortium
CEN/ISS Learning Technology Workshop
IEEE
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
World Wide Web Consortium

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CETIS activities: Community Engagement
 Open Educational Resources
 Widgets
 Semantic technology
 QTI profiling
 Competencies
 eBooks
 Analytics
 MOOCs

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CETIS activities: Social Networking & Analysis
 Extensive use of social
network technologies to
support and build
community engagement.
 Network analysis
techniques to monitor and
visualise community
engagement and
development of social
networks.
 See Martin Hawksey’s
http://mashe.hawksey.info

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CETIS activities: Communications
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk

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CETIS activities: Communications
http://www.cetis.ac.uk

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CETIS activities: Briefing Papers

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CETIS activities: Synthesis & Horizon Scanning

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CETIS activities: Events
 Online seminars.
 Community events.
 Codebashes, plugfests and interoperability
testing events.
 Hackdays and technical developer events.
 Annual conference
• CETIS 13 - Open for Education: Technology
Innovation in Universities and Colleges.

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CETIS activities: Partnerships
 Open Knowledge
Foundation
 ALT
 ALT Scotland SIG
 Jisc RSC Scotland
 SQA
 Jorum (Re:Source,
Scotland’s Colleges)
 Social Media Week,
Glasgow
 Glasgow Future Cities
Demonstrator
 BIS
 Information Standards
Board
 Association of Colleges
 OSSWatch
 Society for Research in
Learning Analytics
 DoE & DOD, USA
 Surf, Netherlands
 Creative Commons
 OCWC
 MIT OpenCourseware

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Contact Information
CETIS
Web: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
Twitter: jisccetis
Lorna M. Campbell
Email: lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
Twitter: lornamcampbell
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/