Lorna M. Campbell

29th July

After twelve productive years, the University of Strathclyde’s relationship with Cetis has now “reached its conclusion”. The Cetis Memorandum of Understanding has been terminated and all Cetis staff at the university have been made redundant.

Sheila MacNeill

29th July

After eight very happy years working for Cetis based within the now sadly no longer with us CAPLE (Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement) at the University of Strathclyde my working life is moving a bit sideways over the next couple of months.

Phil Barker

24th July

A while back I summarised the input about semantics and academic coding that Lorna and I had made on behalf of Cetis for a study on possible reforms to JACS, the Joint Academic Coding System. That study has now been published.

Simon Grant

18th July

There has been much discussion recently about Mozilla Open Badges, xAPI (Experience API, alias "Tin Can API") and LRMI, as new and interesting specifications to help bring standardization particularly into the world of technology and resources involved with people and their learning. They have all reached their "version 1" this year, along with InLOC.

Martin Hawksey

11th July

For a long time I’ve been in awe of live bloggers like Nicola Osborne and Doug Clow and on several occasions benefitted from being able to point to the information they have captured in posts. This extends to events I’ve not been able to attend such as Doug’s extensive notes from LASI13.

Scott Wilson

5th July

Well this whole Prism business has been quite interesting from a personal perspective, especially this “metadata” business.

Lorna M. Campbell

4th July

“Open Policies can develop Scotland’s unique education offering, support social inclusion and inter-institutional collaboration and sharing and enhance quality and sustainability.”

This was the starting point for discussions at the Open Scotland Summit at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Sheila MacNeill

3rd July

The Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) is taking place this week at Stanford University. Although I'm not one of the lucky few attending in person, Doug Clow (from the OU UK) is leading the live blogging brigade and I've been enjoying catching up with the sessions via all the posts, and looking forward to reading more.

Sheila MacNeill

3rd July

Over the past four years I was part of the support team for the JISC Curriculum Design Programme. And I have to say it was one of the most fascinating "Jisc programme journeys" I've been on.

Martin Hawksey

2nd July

Access control to Google Analytics data is very coarse. Via the web interface you can have full access or none at all. Given the growing interest in data driven decision making at all levels of the institution I thought it would be beneficial to demonstrate how Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps Script could be used to selectively distribute Google Analytics data.