Educational Content

News and events are available from the domain homepage which is updated from feeds from blogs from CETIS staff and other relevant bloggers.

(Looking for the old EC SIG website?)

About
The aim of the Educational Content (EC) SIG is to track, evaluate and support the UK FE/HE sector's uptake and implementation of educational content related interoperability standards. More information on the standards and specifications we monitor is available by following this link.

As with the other JISC CETIS SIGs, the aims of this group are to:


 * Provide information on relevant specifications and standards activity
 * Promote uptake of these specifications and standards in UK HE and FE
 * Promote discussion among people using these specifications and standards
 * Provide feedback to developers of future specifications and standards.

Meetings
The SIG meets approximately every three or four months, at venues across the UK. The next meeting will take place on 16 January at the University of Strathclyde and is joint meeting with Eduserv. The next SIG meeting is scheduled for 27 February - details will be posted shortly.

Copies of presentations from previous meetings can be found by following the links in the table of contents on the right hand side of this page. An archive of previous meetings (including copies of presentations) is available online. If you would be interested in presenting at a future meeting or hosting a meeting please contact the SIG Coordinator, [mailto:l.yuan@bolton.ac.uk Li Yuan].

More information on future SIG meetings and other community events such as interoperability codebashes is available by following this link.

Briefing Paper on Open Educational Resources
A review of Open Educational Resources available in PDF format and an editable version by following this link

More resources relating to OER can be found by following this link.

Content Transcoder
CETIS and Knowledge Integration are working together, with community input, to develop a content transcoder service prototype. What is being proposed is a web service which will convert content into a variety of standard packaging formats (e.g. IMS CP & CC and SCORM). The project also plans to look at the most frequently used proprietary formats such as those used by WebCT, Blackboard and Moodle and at significant UK application profiles such as NLN.

The first phase of the project will be looking at prioritizing which formats and platforms the service should use and general user interface issues. The [[media:ContentTranscoderWiki.doc|project brief ]] (Word doc) is available and we would very much like to hear from you if you would like to be involved; mostly in prioritising which formats are to be transcoded, supplying test-case packages or to verify the quality of the transcoded results in your platform of choice.

Working Groups

 * Widgets Working Group
 * Semantic Technologies in teaching and learning
 * Pedagogical Planners facebook group

Discussion
There is also a JISCMAIL discussion list, which you can join to discuss developments between meetings.

Topics of interest

 * JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery Programme
 * IMS Content Packaging 1.2 Public draft
 * IMS Common Cartridge
 * RAMLET IEEE conceptual model for digital aggregates of resources for learning, education, and training applications.
 * JISC Design for Learning Programme Support wiki
 * OAI-ORE Object Reuse and Exchange: presentations from European Open Day,2008
 * OER briefing paper Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education