exchanging course related information
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Presented at IdeaLab 2006, Melbourne, Australia. By Scott Wilson & Dr. Mark StubbsTRANSCRIPT
Joint Information Systems Committee 12/04/23 | XCRI Briefing | Slide 1
IdeaLab 2006Melbourne, Australia
XCRI | eXchanging Course-Related Information
Dr Mark Stubbs
Project ManagerManchester Metropolitan University
http://www.elframework.org/projects/xcri
Scott Wilson
Technical AdvisorUniversity of [email protected]
Joint Information Systems Committee 12/04/23 | XCRI Briefing | Slide 2
CourseAdvertising
Acquired/RequiredCompetence
EntryRequirements
EntryProfiles
PathwaysAdvice
Portfolio
CourseApproval
Evidence ofAchievement
TranscriptsPersonalDevelopmentPlanning
LearnerTrails
E-Admission
PersonalStatements
CurriculumManagement
CourseModification
E-Application
StudentRecords
AssessmentResults
References
ApplicantFeedback
LearnerGoals
AdmissionStats
CourseSearch
CourseDetails
Joint Information Systems Committee 12/04/23 | XCRI Briefing | Slide 3
xcri | what
XCRI Course Advertising Profile:
– A candidate XML specification for describing courses
– A [service expression] for a ‘Courses‘(?) [service genre] in the e-framework (there are others related to XCRI in curriculum development)
– Derived from the XCRI reference model, which describes the components of curriculum documents used in the curriculum development workflow and the [service expressions] needed (see also COVARM)
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xcri | why
National agenda of ‘informed choice’ about learning opportunities.
Standards exist for exchanging information about people, groups and membership but
no standard way to exchange information about courses.
Institutions developing ways to populate their prospectus from definitive data but
resorting to primitive data entry to populate aggregator sites, regional portals, ... etc.
Genuine interest from the community in a standard for exchanging course information.
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xcri | history
Q1 2005 XCRI project devised by CETIS Enterprise SIG spin-off + UCAS
Q2 2005 Existing standards reviewed (Norway’s CDM closest)
Q3 2005 UK prospectus websites reviewed (161!)Case studies of existing practice produced from site visits
Q4 2005 R1.0 XML schema developed through prototyping & critique
Q1 2006 R1.0 XML schema tested with Plymouth-UCAS, Oxford Uni CPD, Reid Kerr Prospectus & Liverpool Learning Matrix Regional PortalSearchable curriculum repository demonstrated
Q2 2006 XML used at Adam Smith College to generate PDF course brochuresReport produced on competence modelling and XCRI
Q3 2006 Existing XCRI deployments & authoring options reviewedOptimised Course Advertising Profile XML schema released
Q4 2006 JISC to fund trials of the XCRI CAP + demonstration aggregator
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xcri | contributors
Virtual organisation, PM = Mark Stubbs | [email protected]
Michael Aherne, Reid Kerr
Scott Wilson, CETIS
Alan Paull, UCAS consultant
Adam Marshall, Oxford
Paul Walk, ex London Metnow UKOLN
Ben Ryan, Kainao
Vashti Zarach, CETIS
Julie Hardman, MMU
Simon Grant, CETISAnthony Beal, LLMXRoger Clark, LLMX
Mark Leyland, MOVE
Tavis Reddick, Adam Smith
Selwyn Lloyd, Phosphorix
www.elframework.org/projects/xcri
Joint Information Systems Committee 12/04/23 | XCRI Briefing | Slide 7
xcri | cap structure
provider+ identifier+ name+ description[]+ address[]+ street+ town+ postcode+ phone+ fax+ email+ url+ image
course+ identifier+ title+ description[]+ url+ image+ dc:any[]+ qualification[]
Vocab for typed description Aim Asssessment Strategy Career Outcome Entry Profile Indicative Resource Learning Outcome Policy Provided Resource Regulations Required Resource Special Feature Support Structure Syllabus Teaching Strategy
presentation+ identifier+ description[]+ start+ end+ duration+ studyMode+ languageOfInstruction[]+ languageOfAssessment[]+ placesAvailable+ cost+ entryRequirements+ applyFrom+ applyUntil+ applyTo
Vocab for typed description Application Procedure Contact Hours Contact Pattern Study Hours
venue+ identifier+ name+ description[]+ address[]+ street+ town+ postcode+ phone+ fax+ email+ url+ image
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www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd
(This largely maps into IETF Atom and DCES)
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xcri | cap service expression
www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd
Level 1: Pure aggregation, RSS/Atom style - “course info feeds”
Level 2: OAI-PMH protocol carrying XCRI-CAP metadata
Binding options of format:
– Complete XCRI-CAP schema (current)
– IETF Atom extensions
– Microformat approach
– Attribute set for SRU/W+CQL search service?
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xcri | example implementation
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xcri | example implementation
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xcri | example implementation
LearnersSearch theAggregator
Institutions PublishXCRI XML
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xcri | current projects
GMSA
Learning Matrix Liverpool
SURF (not the Dutch one)
UCAS
Oxford
Assisted take-up funding from JISC
JISC E-Admissions process improvement programme
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xcri | future work
Submit CAP to standardization process (TBD)
Do the whole e-framework SUM thing…
Support workflow of developing authoritative curriculum definitions (hard to do)
Pathway analysis (really hard to do)
Acquired/required competencies (don’t go there)
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xcri | find out more
FAQs
Project Manager’s blog
Outputs
– Review of Norway’s CDM
– Content-harvesting case studies
– 160+ prospectus sites survey
– Business case for adoption
– R1.0 schema & XML & case studies
– Web service demonstrator
– Sample XSL Transforms
– Presentations & Papers
– XCRI & Competence Report
– CAP schema & sample XML
www.elframework.org/projects/xcri
Joint Information Systems Committee 12/04/23 | XCRI Briefing | Slide 15
XCRI | eXchanging Course-Related Informationthanks for listening: any questions?
http://www.elframework.org/projects/xcri