The document introduces CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards), which supports the UK higher and post-16 education sectors in adopting educational technology and standards. CETIS provides strategic technical advice, engages in various programs and communities, and represents the UK in international standards bodies. It emphasizes the development of digital literacies and flexible learning environments, while also outlining its partnerships and community engagement initiatives.

1. An Introduction to CETIS
Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill
CETIS Assistant Directors
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. CETIS mission statement
 Develop, and facilitate effective
implementations and use of, the open
standards needed to: implement flexible and
adaptive learning environments, learning
services and learning resources; increase the
choice of available systems and software by
helping to maintain a healthy open market;
and support the development of the
capabilities and good practices within the UK
F/HE community.
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6. What CETIS does: Programme Support
 Provide strategic technical advice to Jisc.
 Advise on development programmes’ technical
approaches and directions.
 Monitor technical developments and emergent
issues.
 Identify common practice.
 Synthesise and disseminate technical outputs.
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7. What CETIS does: 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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8. What CETIS does: 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
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9. What CETIS does: Community Engagement
Special Interest Groups Working Groups
(2001 – 2006) (2006 – present)
 Accessibility  OER
 Assessment  Widgets
 Educational Content  Semantic technology
 Enterprise  QTI profile
 Metadata & Digital  Competencies
Repositories  eBooks
 Porfolio
 Analytics
 Pedagogy Forum
 MOOC technology
 Life Long Learning
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10. What CETIS does: 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
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11. What CETIS does: Social Networking & Analysis
Interactive visualisation of twitter conversations.
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12. What CETIS does: Social Networking & Analysis
Connections & relationships between people in a
network.
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13. What CETIS does: Communications
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
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14. What CETIS does: Briefing papers
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15. What CETIS does: Synthesis & Horizon
scanning
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16. 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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17. What CETIS does: Partnerships
 BIS  ALT Scotland
 Information Standards  RSC Scotland
Board  SQA
 Association of Colleges  Jorum (Re:Source,
 OSSWatch Scotlands Colleges)
 Society for Research in  Social Media Week,
Learning Analytics Glasgow
 DoE & DOD, USA
 Surf, Netherlands
 Creative Commons
 OCWC
 MIT OpenCourseware
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18. Digital Literacies
 What is digital literacy?
 “By digital literacy we mean those capabilities
which fit an individual for living, learning and
working in a digital society” (JISC)
 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdig
italliteracies/developingdigitalliteraciesprog.aspx
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19. Digital learning environments
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20. Digital Literacies
Digital Participation Information Literacy
*Civic role and responsibilities *High level concepts and
*Community engagement perceptions influencing practice
*Networks (human and digital) *Staff & student engagement and
*Technological affordances development
*Effective development and use of
infrastructure
Curriculum and Course Design Learning Environment
*Constructive alignment *Physical and digital
*Curriculum representations, *Pedagogical and social
course management, pedagogical *Research and enquiry
innovation *Staff and Resources
*Recruitment and marketing
*Reporting, data, analytics
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21. Contact Information
CETIS
Web: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk
Twitter: jisccetis
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/
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