Newsletter:
January 2012
News and comment on developments in educational
technology and standards for the e-Learning Programme
Community.
Here is a round-up of
some of the latest news and discussion around educational
technology and standards for the e-Learning Programme
community. These items can be found on the JISC CETIS web
site http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk which collects RSS feeds from JISC
CETIS staff blogs, and other sources including JISC News and
Funding.
This bulletin is in five parts: links to the latest news
items, followed by longer feature articles, current funding
opportunities, upcoming events and finally recent
JISC CETIS publications.
1.
News
Please note the links below
will take you directly to the RSS posts.
31 January 2012
JISC bid farewell
to Malcolm after 18 years service.
30 January 2012
Invaluable guide to
creating a great bid, from JISC.
24 January 2012
Ways of
participating in this year’s event.
2.
Features
Please note
the links below will take you directly to the RSS posts.
What
you were reading: the top five posts of January 2012
26 January 2012
Some thoughts on
information and digital literacy, by Sheila MacNeill.
25 January 2012
Lorna Campbell
voices all our thoughts in her fond farewell to John Robertson
as he heads off to new lands.
17 January 2012
Rowin Young looks
at the most popular posts on the CETIS site in 2011.
16 January 2012
A round up of the
JISC Distributed Virtual Learning Environments programme
outcomes presented at this session, by Sheila MacNeill.
28 January 2012
Wilbert Kraan
discusses factors around developing interoperability.
Features
in full
January
2012
31 January 2012
Scott Wilson is
encouraged to see a community developing around this
JavaScript technology.
31 January 2012
A very detailed
look at the wide range of technologies being used by projects
in this JISC programme, by Sheila MacNeill.
30 January 2012
Adam Cooper is
pleasantly surprised by the UK Government’s newly released
Information Principles.
30 January 2012
Martin Hawksey
demonstrates a number of uses for project tracking data.
30 January 2012
A number of ways of
using data from PROD to create maps and other visualisations,
explained by Sheila MacNeill.
30 January 2012
A series of screen
casts on querying PROD, by David Sherlock.
26 January 2012
Rowin Young
introduces the EEVS project at the University of
Hertfordshire.
26 January 2012
Do students who
plagiarise actually realise that they’re plagiarising, wonders
Rowin Young.
25 January 2012
Martin Hawksey
creates some visualisations of project timelines from PROD.
25 January 2012
John Robertson
looks back at some of the blog posts he never got the chance
to write.
25 January 2012
A look at how this
project is transforming their feedback model, by Rowin Young.
25 January 2012
Sharing of
individual repository resources is very rare, but can be very
powerful, finds Martin Hawksey.
18 January 2012
Lorna Campbell
thinks there should be more female speakers at Learning
Without Frontiers.
18 January 2012
David Sherlock
looks forward to this conference session, and shares a
valuable protip.
17 January 2012
Martin Hawksey
looks at ways of tracking the use of open educational
resources.
16 January 2012
A look ahead at
this year’s event, by Christina Smart.
16 January 2012
Simon Grant wonders
who the real stakeholders in standardisation work are.
13 January 2012
An introduction to
new work developing an experimental Learning Registry node, by
Lorna Campbell.
10 January 2012
Martin Hawksey
explores various ways of reflecting the geographic origin of
OER collections.
3 January 2012
A snapshot of
information on OERs, by Martin Hawksey.
3.
Funding opportunities
Deadline: 22
February 2012
Deadline: 1
March 2012
Deadline: 16
March 2012
4.
Forthcoming events
22 – 23
February, Nottingham
7 March,
Birmingham
5.
Recent Publications
This briefing
paper by Wilbert Kraan and Li Yuan explores the risks and
opportunities that cloud computing offers for Higher and
Further education institutions.
An introduction
to IMS Question and Test Interoperability v2.1.
Your
feedback?
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love to hear your feedback! Please let us know if you find
this newsletter useful, or have any comments or suggestions to
make.
Many thanks,
Rowin Young
Dr Rowin Young
Research Fellow
University of Strathclyde
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