JISC & CETISJISC is the Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK Higher & Further

Education Funding Agencies

Enagages in:• Sector-wide procurement• Funding research & development (risk taking)• Supporting the development of standards and specifications• Supporting the uptake of innovations by institutions

(Roughly equivalent to SURF in NL)

CETIS is the JISC’s Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards, an innovation support centre that engages in strategic interventions and sector support for new technologies and the development and adoption of new specifications

JISC is a member of many standards organisations (CEN, IMS etc); CETIS provides representation (e.g. chair of BSI IST/43, IEEE rep, IMS reps, CEN reps…)

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Achievement Information WG

Supporting the technical implementation of the Higher Education Achievement Report - the UK’s diploma supplement plus extensions

Deliverables: Recommendations on architecture Recommendations in information model and schema Collating use cases and business models

Timescale Initial work now completed or nearly completed Supporting 18 pilot projects to March ‘09

Pilot ProjectsInstitution Technical System

University of Derby Oracle Peoplesoft

Northumbria University Tribal SITS

University College London Tribal SITS

Goldsmiths TBC

University of Northampton Agresso

University of Manchester Oracle Campus Solutions

Newcastle University Not known

Keele University Tribal SITS

University of Leicester Tribal SITS

University of Wales Institute, Cardiff Tribal SITS

University of Gloucestershire Tribal SITS

York St John University Tribal SITS

University of Greenwich Sungard Banner

Newman University College Tribal SITS

University of Ulster Sungard Banner

University for the Creative Arts Tribal SITS

University of St Andrews Tribal SITS

RS3G!

Architecture Requirements

Key requirements:

• For students to be able to share both interim and final graduate documents with employers and other institutions

• For employers to be able to validate the achievements of applicants

• For the institutions to be able to show both formal and non-formal achievements of students

Issue: requirements are largely supply-driven and lack a clear understanding of demand-side requirements

Information Model Requirements

An information model for representing the HEAR that:

• Is fairly simple and lightweight• Coherent with respect to European developments• Builds on existing models• Supports verification• Supports flexible access control

Working with Digitary, Olivedon and others to identify useful models

Information Model Approach

• Reuse: Combination of XCRI, MIAP, XHTML– XCRI is UK’s MLO binding, but adds simple Qualification and

Credit structures– MIAP is UK government’s own specification for learner and

institution data, especially identifiers

• Separate components for Person, Provider, Transcript, Diploma, Other Information– Enables separate signing, access policies and business rules

for different parts

NB :

Provider = MLO LOP

Course = MLO LOS

Presentation = MLO LOI

Roadmap

• Need to make sure HEAR converges (or co-evolves) with CEN Learner Mobility standard– XCRI -> MLO– MIAP Person -> ???

• Pilot projects engaging in trial implementations– May involve existing products for prototype

• Ongoing national programme