CETIS13 Plenary

QTI v2.1

Wilbert Kraan

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IMS Question & Test Interoperability

• QTI 2.1 is out now, and being implemented in six nations, with around £300 mill. investment

• UniQurate authoring editor allows lecturers to combine lots of interactions in one question item

• QTIWorks does most of the spec, works seamlessly in BB, Moodle and other LTI enabled platforms

• Jassess is reporting back from the outer reaches of adaptive testing: that works, but requires pondering

• Too early to nail a UK HE profile of QTI, but the outline is pretty clear

HE Information Landscape -Seize the DayAdam Cooper

Lightening Talks

● Course data – useful applications● Search engines are useless● Educationhackers.org - developer talents

solving problems in our educational institutions

● Big data + big project = big waste of money● Just one academic me please!● Data warehouses, reporting and the HEIL

Four Ideas

1.Staff Development - “data literacy”Better equipped for collaborative design

2.Open [Sector] VocabulariesDiscovery, transformation, publication

3.Students as data creators/consumersStudents building the tools they need

4.Course data/informationHire students to curate course data

OPEN Practice and OER Sustainability

Phil Barker

Open Practice and OER Sustainability

“Scratch your own itch”

Images @mrnick, @dkernohan; quote Julian Tenney

Is your open their open?

“It’s like MOOCs stole OER’s

girlfriend”

Future of CETIS session

Paul Hollins

Future of the CETIS Emerging technologies

• Short term (12months)

Bring You Own Cloud, Mobile Devices • Mid term (2-3 years)

Haptics, New User Interfaces

Market Analytics• Long term (3-5years)

Next Generation Institutional Systems

Semi Autonomous Software Agents

future of the CETIS

“lots of choices need to be made for the future”

“need to demonstrate ROI, need to show short term for governments”

“cross road or a roundabout”“keep the conversation going , more than creating standards/interoperability specs”

“cetis stops massive cock-ups! stopping sector making stupid decisions - hard to share that”.

“applying this group of " brilliant people" ideas to the rest of the world ”

“not everything is education specific - has other wider potential”

“vision and value set are keys”

Open Innovation and Open Development

Scott Wilson and Simon Whittemore

Stay Alive

Mine buried treasure

Skills and Competence

Simon Grant

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Skills and competence opportunities session

Session framed as opportunity to think forward What if we had a good infrastructure in place

With lots of linked data Outcomes, competences etc. linking to frameworks

What opportunities would open up? Some short presentations Two small groups formulating opportunities etc. Much useful discussion and clarification InLOC mentioned as enabler

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Group A Learner tools

How am I doing? What do I know well; what don't I know well? Employer tools

Role aware job spec management / tailoring; upskilling Many other service tools

Awarding bodies, universities, etc. Small-time developers

Youtube clips, apps, effectively linked / tagged Disaggregation makes parts much more accessible generally

Possibility of taking into account accessibility Mix physical ability requirements in with other skills

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Group B Motivation

Individual lifelong learning pathways Disaggregating courses and qualifications

Which are currently too course Using a common language

Skills audits; evolving skills requirements Path to the outcome

Built on common language Tools include granular skills audit, flexible self-

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Analytics and Institutional Capabilities

Sheila MacNeill

• Big Data +

•Big Project=

•Big Waste of Money

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