Thursday last week, 12 July, saw us run the final programme meeting for the JISC Relationship Management programme, which CETIS has provided Support and Synthesis since it began in 2009 . Representatives from all the current 16 projects, spread across all of the UK met in sunny (honestly!) Manchester to celebrate the work that has […]
Facelift for JISC CETIS Newsletter
I finally got around to giving our monthly newsletter an overdue facelift. In response to feedback we’ve cut down the content to the top 10 blog posts instead of the nearly 40 posts that we actually write in a month. Here’s a screen grab of the new format: I decided to use the JISCMAIL templates […]
JISC CETIS Privacy and Cookie Policies
Like every organisation that runs a web site, we’ve been considering how to comply with the new Cookie Law that came into effect at the end of May. And like many others we’ve developed a Privacy Policy and a Cookie Policy to clarify how we use personal data and cookies on JISC CETIS sites. The […]
Developing a new approach to competence representation
InLOC is a European project organised to come up with a good way of communicating structures or frameworks of competence, learning outcomes etc. We’ve now produced our interim reports for consultation: the Information Model and the Guidelines. We welcome feedback from everyone, to ensure this becomes genuinely useful and not just another academic exercise.
My First Ebook
When I purchase an item I like having a physical thing to hold and show for my purchase. There is something about my physical CD collection that my digital one does not capture; is it all those colourful cases, the fancy sleeve artwork, the smell of a new cd or am I just a hoarder? […]
Service Design is the future!
It is true to say that we are lucky enough at times to be able to work on something that really is interesting, and that for me is true of the world of ‘service design’. I encountered this area as part of my work supporting the JISC Relationship Management programme, and can honestly say that […]
Sharing ideas in a distributed organisation
A good thing about working in JISC CETIS is being surrounded by the wide array of interests and ideas of its staff. A bad thing about working for JISC CETIS is with its distributed nature (and the fact everybody is always so busy!) it is always not possible to sit down and have a good […]
Overview of the work in the JISC Relationship Management Programme
We thought it would be useful to provide a brief overview and update of the work taking place in the current Phase of the JISC Relationship Management Programme, as the projects are nearing completion so naturally have many interesting findings. The Programme runs from March 2011 to August 2012 and consists of three strands: Strand […]
Doing analytics with open source linked data tools
Like most places, the University of Bolton keeps its data in many stores. That’s inevitable with multiple systems, but it makes getting a complete picture of courses and students difficult. We test an approach that promises to integrate all this data, and some more, quickly and cheaply. Integrating a load of data in a specialised […]
Webinar on Future of Web Applications
For those that missed yesterday’s Webinar on The Future of Web Applications, the presentations and recording is now available from the JISC website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/05/webinarwebapplications.aspx Briefly, the webinar includes: An overview of the current trends in web design by Scott Wilson, A summary by Scott of the new JISC Observatory TechWatch report on Delivering Web to […]