Hi all,
As I just mentioned on the Educational Content SIG list, some of you may
remember Tore Hoel, Manager of Norway's new eStandard Project (which
aims to become their own CETIS-like organisation) at the EC SIG meeting
last week. After that meeting Tore met with myself, Phil Barker, Rowin
Cross, Charles Duncan of Intrallect and Gerry Graham of LTScotland, with
venue and lunch kindly provided by LTScotland.
Of specific interest to this SIG was the project being developed in
Norway for a specification for course description metadata. Here's a
quote from the report on the meeting:
"[The Norwegian eStandard Project] are looking at specifying course
description metadata to describe courses and programmes. These can
include anything from a private institution's course on hairdressing
through to an HE engineering course. It must be able to describe
courses, modules etc., so that students can find all the information
they need to choose courses. They wish to ensure this metadata
specification is not just Norway-specific. This area is related to
competencies and material supporting courses. Relationship to LOM
important in order to match courses to materials. This part of the
project, involving a specification and application demonstrator was
starting in one month with ca £40,000. The University of Oslo is
managing it; they host a major student management system.
Interoperability will be an issue. Various course/programme portals in
the UK were mentioned: British Council, UCAS
(http://www.ucas.ac.uk/ucc/), LearnDirect Scotland for instance, but no
work done yet on metadata spec here. [Gerry Graham] mentioned that the
issue was discussed in Vancouver in February. Web site for the Course
Description Metada Project is
http://www.estandard.no/katalogprosjektet/. (Most of the material in
Norwegian, but some links to resources in English - briefs in English
will be written on request)."
The report from the meeting is on the EC SIG website at:
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/20010809144711/FR20030305171909
And Tore's short presentation on the Project is also on the website at:
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/20010809144711/FR20030305134456
I'm sure Tore will be happy to answer any questions and would welcome
discussion on this list.
Regards
Sarah
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