InLOC is well designed to provide the conceptual “glue” or “thread” for holding together structures and planned pathways of achievement, which can be represented by Mozilla OpenBadges. Since my last post — the last of the previous academic year, also about OpenBadges and InLOC — I have been invited to talk at OBSEG – the […]
Open Standards Board – First Recommendations Announced
The Open Standards Board, which exists to make recommendations to the UK (Westminster) Government Cabinet Office, met last week and completed the journey to the first milestone in the new process by which open standards are to be selected. This process is based around the idea that “challenges” are raised on the Standards Hub, proposals […]
So long and thanks for all the fish
After eight years very happy years my time with Cetis has drawn to a close. I am moving on to pastures new as a Senior Lecturer in Blended Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University starting early next month. When I started at Cetis, Sarah Currier, who’s role as EC SIG Co-ordinator, I replaced told me that […]
Small is beautiful: an antidote to big data #altc2013
Over the past year Cetis has been spending quite a bit of time exploring the context and potential of analytics within the education sector. The Cetis analytics series is our on-going contribution to the debate. As part of of our investigations we undertook a survey of UK institutions to try and get a baseline of […]
Congratulations!
I was very disappointed that I couldn’t go to ALT-C last week, but alas lack of funding meant I was unable to get to the conference this year. ALT-C is always a great networking event and an excellent opportunity to take the pulse of the education technology community in the UK F/HE sector. However the […]
Report on a Survey of Analytics in Higher and Further Education (UK)
We have just published the results of an informal survey undertaken by Cetis to: Assess the current state of analytics in UK FE/HE. Identify the challenges and barriers to using analytics. The report is available formatted as PDF and for MS Word. For the purpose of the survey, we defined our use of “analytics” to […]
Open, Education
This is a longish summary of a presentation I gave recently, covering why I was talking, the spectrum of openness, the ways of being open, the range of activities involved in education and how open things might apply to those activities. You may want to skim through until something catches your eye Why I did […]
What does the Oculus Rift mean for education?
I’m pretty excited about the Oculus Rift. Incase you’ve missed it, the Oculus Rift is a Virtual Reality headset that was initially a kickstarter project that while successful on kickstarter has since found even more big money backers. Playing on it goes something like this: We’ve seen VR headsets before, several were released in the […]
New Cetis, New website
You might have noticed that Cetis has a new web site www.cetis.org.uk. For the last six months I’ve been working with my colleagues, Mark Power, David Sherlock, Phil Parker, Sheila MacNeill and Martin Hawksey to update our web presence to reflect the new organisation. I thought I’d share some of the thinking behind the new […]
Embed innovation or implant potential?
This thought on etextbooks is an overflow from a conversation I was having on skype with Li and Tore about a workshop aimed at scoping what we would like the etextbooks of the future to look like. We were talking about how the idea of a textbook–its role in teaching and learning and hence (perhaps) […]