We are very pleased to announce that the annual Cetis conference #cetis14 will take place on the 17th and 18th June at our host institution the University of Bolton. This is the tenth year of the Cetis conference (prizes for anyone who has attended all ten). The theme this year focuses on the digital institution […]
Scottish Government Support for Open Education?
(Cross posted from Open Scotland.) “We broadly support open licences and OER and need a serious public debate on this issue.” ~Michael Russell, MSP This was the Minister for Education’s response to a question I put to him earlier today regarding Scottish Government support for open education policy and open licences for publicly funded educational […]
Learning about learning about …
I was recently reading a short piece from Peter Honey (of learning styles fame) in a CIPD blog post in which he writes, saving the most important item for last in his list: Learning to learn – the ultimate life-skill You can turn learning in on itself and use your learning skills to help you […]
What Could ITS 2.0 Offer the Web Manager?
Back in October 2013 the W3C announced that the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) version 2.0 had become a W3C recommendation. The announcement stated: The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. ITS 2.0 provides a foundation for integrating automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS 2.0 bears many […]
Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions
Personal Experiences of MOOCs Last year I completed the Hyperlinked Library MOOC. I had previously signed up for several MOOCs but this has been the only MOOC which I have completed. I found the experiences I gained in participating in the MOOC useful and felt they were worth sharing and so I published post on […]
Cetis White Paper on ‘Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions’
It is now six years since the advent of the first MOOC course, and 2012 is widely identified as the year that the hype surrounding MOOCs reached its peak and in 2013 began its path into ‘trough of disillusionment’. The key questions for institutions are what lessons we might learn from the MOOC experiment and […]
Reshaping my Twitter Network
Managing One’s Personal Learning Network Pruning My Twitter Network In the autumn I took part in the Hyperlinked Library MOOC. One of the assignments was to develop plans for use of an Online Professional Learning Network (OPLN). The specific requirements included developing a Network Maintenance Plan: This will provide answers to questions such as: How will you maintain your online […]
Where to put your EPUB metadata
Even in the knowledge that current mainstream EPUB readers and applications for managing eBooks will most likely ignore all but the most trivial metadata, we still have use cases that involve more sophisticate metadata. For example we would like to use the LRMI alignment object in schema.org to say that a particular subsection of a […]
Our pick of posts from 2013
For the last few years we’ve started January with a quick look back at our posts from the previous year. 2013 saw a lot of changes for Cetis, with the ending of Jisc Core funding and subsequent loss of some key staff members. But there were some highlights too. So here’s our picks of the […]
Interesting Times
May you live in interesting times is a well known, but seemingly fictitious, “Chinese curse”, and boy was 2013 an interesting time! I’m not much given to end of year reflections as I tend to see this as a time to look forward rather than back, however I can’t let this year pass without comment. […]