The document provides an overview of CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards), which supports UK higher education in developing technology policies and standards. CETIS, funded by Jisc, collaborates with various educational institutions and international standards bodies to promote open educational resources (OER) and innovative teaching practices. Additionally, it outlines resources and activities related to OER, emphasizing community engagement and networking through social media and events.

1. SLA SIG, May 2013
An Introduction to CETIS
Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill
CETIS Assistant Directors

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What is CETIS?
 Centre for
 Educational
 Technology and
 Interoperability
 Standards
A national Innovation Support Centre providing advice
to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on
educational technology and standards.

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About CETIS
Partnership between:
University of Bolton
(10)
University of
Strathclyde (3)
Heriot Watt University
(1)
Funded by Jisc since
2001.

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What is Jisc?
Jisc is:
A registered charity that works on behalf of
UK higher education, further education and
skills to champion the use of digital
technologies.
Funded by all the UK post-16 and higher
education funding bodies as well as the
research councils.
Owned by AOC, Guild HE and UUK.

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What does CETIS do?
 We work with our clients and partners to develop policy
and strategy, providing impartial and independent
advice on technology and standards. CETIS are active
in the development and implementation of open
standards and represent our clients in national,
European and global standards bodies and industry
consortia. We develop & support the adoption of
technology and standards for course advertising, open
education resources, assessment, and student data
management, opening new markets and creating
opportunities for innovation.

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CETIS activities: Programme Support
Programmes CETIS has supported include:
Open Educational Resources
Developing Digital Literacies
Assessment and Feedback
Distributed Virtual Learning Environments
Customer Relationship Management
Curriculum Design and Delivery
Digital Repositories

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What activities: Standards
CETIS represents UK F/HE on a wide range of
international standards bodies including:
British Standards Institute
International Standards Organisation
IMS Global Learning Consortium
CEN/ISS Learning Technology Workshop
IEEE
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
World Wide Web Consortium

8. CLD SIG, January 2013
CETIS activities: Community Engagement
Recent working groups:
 Open Educational Resources
 Widgets
 Semantic technology
 QTI profile
 Competencies
 eBooks
 Analytics
 MOOC technology

9. CLD SIG, January 2013
CETIS activities: Social Networking & Analysis
 Extensive use of social
network technologies to
support and build
community engagement.
 Network analysis
techniques to monitor and
visualise community
engagement and
development of social
networks.
 See Martin Hawksey’s
http://mashe.hawksey.info

10. CLD SIG, January 2013
CETIS activities: Communications
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk

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CETIS activities: Briefing Papers

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CETIS activities: Synthesis & Horizon Scanning

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What CETIS does: Events
 Online seminars.
 Community events.
 Codebashes, plugfests and interoperability
testing events.
 Hackdays and technical developer events.
 Annual conference
• CETIS 13 - Open for Education: Technology
Innovation in Universities and Colleges.

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What CETIS does: Partnerships
 ALT Scotland
 RSC Scotland
 SQA
 Jorum (Re:Source,
Scotlands Colleges)
 Social Media Week,
Glasgow
 BIS
 Information Standards
Board
 Association of Colleges
 OSSWatch
 Society for Research in
Learning Analytics
 DoE & DOD, USA
 Surf, Netherlands
 Creative Commons
 OCWC
 MIT OpenCourseware

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Open Educational Resources
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

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What are Open Educational Resources?
 Term OER first introduced at
UNESCO conference in 2002.
 Many varying definitions of OER.
 Freely available digital materials
released under open licence, that can
be used and re-purposed for teaching,
learning, and research.

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Open Licences
 Most commonly used OER open licences
are Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
 Creative Commons is a non-profit
organization whose free legal tools provide
a global standard for enabling the open
sharing of knowledge and creativity.
 (UK Open Government Licence aligns with
Creative Commons Attribution Licence.)

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UK OER Programme
 Funded by HEFCE between 2009 – 2012.
 Managed by JISC and HEA and supported by
CETIS.
 Invested over £10 million.
 Funded over 80 individual projects.
 Aimed at releasing OERs and embedding
sustainable open practice in institutions.
 All resource tagged #ukoer and deposited in
Jorum national repository
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: Jorum
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: Re:source
http://resource.blogs.scotcol.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: HumBox
http://humbox.ac.uk/

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Where to find OERs: Xpert
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

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Where to find OERs: Creative Commons Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/

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Where to find OERs: Open Courseware
Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

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Where to find OERs: OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/

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Where to find OERs: OU OpenLearn
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

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Where to find OERs: MIT Opencourseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

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Contact Information
CETIS
Web: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
Twitter: jisccetis
Slideshare:
Lorna M. Campbell
Email: lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
Twitter: lornamcampbell
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/
Sheila MacNeill
Email: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk
Twitter: sheilmcn
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/