Feedback from the parallel sessions at the CETIS13 conference

1. CETIS13 Plenary

2. QTI v2.1
Wilbert Kraan

3. IMS Question & Test Interoperability
• QTI 2.1 is out now, and being implemented in six
nations, with around £300 mill. investment
• UniQurate authoring editor allows lecturers to
combine lots of interactions in one question item
• QTIWorks does most of the spec, works seamlessly
in BB, Moodle and other LTI enabled platforms
• Jassess is reporting back from the outer reaches of
adaptive testing: that works, but requires pondering
• Too early to nail a UK HE profile of QTI, but the
outline is pretty clear
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4. HE Information Landscape -
Seize the Day
Adam Cooper

5. Lightening Talks
● Course data – useful applications
● Search engines are useless
● Educationhackers.org - developer talents
solving problems in our educational
institutions
● Big data + big project = big waste of money
● Just one academic me please!
● Data warehouses, reporting and the HEIL

6. Four Ideas
1.Staff Development - “data literacy”
Better equipped for collaborative design
2.Open [Sector] Vocabularies
Discovery, transformation, publication
3.Students as data creators/consumers
Students building the tools they need
4.Course data/information
Hire students to curate course data

7. OPEN Practice and OER
Sustainability
Phil Barker

8. Open Practice and OER Sustainability
“Scratch your own itch”
Images @mrnick, @dkernohan; quote Julian Tenney

9. Is your open their open?
“It’s like MOOCs stole OER’s
girlfriend”

10. Future of CETIS session
Paul Hollins

11. Future of the CETIS
Emerging technologies
• Short term (12months)
Bring You Own Cloud, Mobile Devices
• Mid term (2-3 years)
Haptics, New User Interfaces
Market Analytics
• Long term (3-5years)
Next Generation Institutional Systems
Semi Autonomous Software Agents

12. future of the CETIS “need to demonstrate ROI,
need to show short term
“lots of choices need to be for governments”
made for the future”
“cross road or a roundabout”
“keep the conversation
going , more than creating
“not everything is education
standards/interoperability
specific - has other wider
specs” potential”
“vision and value set are keys”
“cetis stops massive cock-ups! “applying this group of "
stopping sector making stupid brilliant people" ideas
decisions - hard to share that”. to the rest of the world ”

13. Open Innovation and Open
Development
Scott Wilson and Simon Whittemore

14. Stay Alive

15. Mine buried
treasure

16. Skills and Competence
Simon Grant

17. Skills and competence opportunities
session
 Session framed as opportunity to think forward
 What if we had a good infrastructure in place
 With lots of linked data
 Outcomes, competences etc. linking to frameworks
 What opportunities would open up?
 Some short presentations
 Two small groups formulating opportunities etc.
 Much useful discussion and clarification
 InLOC mentioned as enabler
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18. Group A
 Learner tools
 How am I doing? What do I know well; what don't I know well?
 Employer tools
 Role aware job spec management / tailoring; upskilling
 Many other service tools
 Awarding bodies, universities, etc.
 Small-time developers
 Youtube clips, apps, effectively linked / tagged
 Disaggregation makes parts much more accessible generally
 Possibility of taking into account accessibility
 Mix physical ability requirements in with other skills
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19. Group B
 Motivation
 Individual lifelong learning pathways
 Disaggregating courses and qualifications
 Which are currently too course
 Using a common language
 Skills audits; evolving skills requirements
 Path to the outcome
 Built on common language
 Tools include granular skills audit, flexible self-
description
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20. Analytics and Institutional
Capabilities
Sheila MacNeill

21. • Big Data +
•Big Project=
•Big Waste of Money