Interoperability and Standards

JISC CETIS have been providing advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education sectors for the past 10 years. In that time there have been profound changes in the technologies used to support teaching and learning and consequently the educational technology specifications and standards being developed.

The Standards topic area http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/standards gathers together a number of resources and recent blog posts about interoperability standards.

The following recent articles and reports by JISC CETIS staff discuss some of these changes and speculate about the ways interoperability might be achieved in the future.


 * JISC CETIS Informal Horizon Scan 2011

A public version of the informal horizon scan JISC CETIS presented to its Board in March 2011 identifies technologies likely to be significant to UK higher and further education in the coming year.


 * The Future of Interoperability Standards in Education – System and Process

A summary of a JISC CETIS meeting held in January 2010.


 * Briefing Paper: Assessing the Business Case for Standards, An introduction for strategy planning and resourcing committees

This briefing is intended to provide advice and supporting materials to help people to incorporate standards in their ICT-related business cases.

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 * '''Evaluating Standards discussion paper

A paper by Adam Cooper (April 2009) addressing the question: “how do we know if a standard is fit for adoption” and discussing what fitness means and how we can assess it.


 * How Users can get a grip on technology innovation

In his blog (July 2008) Wilbert Kraan discusses the process of technology commodification, and the impact of educational technology standards.


 * Beyond Standards Part 1 - The Standards Process

Adam Cooper reflects on the past 10 years of developments in educational technology standards and ponders the role of standards as we move "beyond this period of anticipatory standards." (March 2008)