JISC CETIS Conference 2010 schedule
Monday 15th November 2010
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Cheaper, flexible, effective institutions: community and learner support
Facilitated by: Li Yuan, Simon Grant and John Robertson
David Willetts provided some initial political impetus for thinking about low-cost, flexible and effective higher education, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/educa... as reported by the BBC
What can we contribute? CETIS potentially has several angles on this question, for example as http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong... and an earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B... thought-piece video gives one possible vision of what it might look like in 2030 from the points of view of different stakeholders.
But while CETIS often focuses on the detail of the technology and interoperability that can enable this kind of development,
we need to think about how technology interacts with political and economic realities, if our thinking is to bear fruit.In this session, we will start by looking at the big questions in terms of how technology interacts with policy, politics and economics. What might realistically work in the UK? What might work in an overseas campus of a UK university, where the learner financial resources are much less?
What, indeed, might work in a university based in a country with a developing economy?Participants are asked to bring their knowledge of political and economic realities together with the interests of CETIS, to suggest some approaches that have a chance of working in the real world. Ideally, we would like participants to write a short piece describing the ideas they are bringing, and we will link to these from this page, as happened with the Future of Interoperability Standards September 2010 event recently.
As well as different ideas, we expect different people to bring different political and economic assumptions. We are currently anticipating asking people to say a little about the political and economic assumptions they are bringing, as part of introducing themselves at the beginning of the session, and from that, get together small groups that can work from the same assumptions to put together a vision from that point of view.
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Open Innovation (day 1)
Facilitated by: Scott Wilson
This strand is taking place across the two days and is being jointly organised by CETIS, UKOLN and OSSWatch. These two sessions will develop ideas for open innovation strategies for taking advantage of open content, open standards, open data and open source and for developing more effective partnerships for implementing them.
In recent years it has become increasingly clear that while these "open" agendas are individually useful, there is more that can be done to align them for greater effect - for example, open source implementations of open standards, open source tools for working with open content, and open source community models for sustaining innovation. There is also a greater awareness that we need to be looking more broadly at how we partner with other sectors and other types of organisations to get better value for our investment in innovation activities.
We will look at case studies, at the current state of the art in open innovation, at the range of activities undertaken in the sector, and develop practical ideas for the short, medium and longer term.
Useful links:
http://transfersummit.com/ Transfer Summit
http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/... Transfer Summit: Open Innovation-Development-Collaboration (blog post) -
Next Generation Content
Facilitated by: Mark Power
This session will be looking at current, popular technologies for data capture and creation, the formatting and packaging of this and distribution methods across platforms. Looking at the current use of mobile devices and how new standards such as HTML5 and CSS3 will change the web and why developers and content authors should look at these closely. We will also look at how HTML5, CSS3 and the work of the W3C in Device APIs and Protocols enables the creation of adaptive content for users across PCs, laptops, tablets and mobile phones. We will also use the opportunity to look at up and coming, cutting edge technologies, such as augmented reality and how image recognition and the marriage of marker-based AR and mobile capability are taking this area into a second wave of immersive content and activities.
Recent projects involved in these processes will talk about their experiences and delegates will be able to share opinions and thoughts on the focus of mobile optimised websites versus native apps, web apps and widgets and the general evolution and potential of the new technologies and immersive possibilities emerging now.
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Integrating and Subverting Corporate Systems for Educational Purposes
by Jim Everett, Sam Rowley, Hugh Davis and Sheila MacNeill
Facilitated by: Sheila MacNeill
Presenting: Professor Hugh Davies, University of Southampton, Jim Everett, University of Strathclyde, Sam Rowley, University of Staffordshire, Professor Mark Stubbs, MMU.
See http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Integrat... for info on this session.
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Relationship Management: a conflict of interest?
Facilitated by: Sharon Perry and Paul Hollins
Set against the background of the JISC Relationship Management Programme, this session will briefly describe some of the findings and will focus on two groups of 'customers': BCE (Business and Community Engagement) customers (i.e. employers, community and local government) and students. BCE customers are being encouraged to design course curricula and institutions are trying to accommodate their requirements, yet at the same time efforts are also being made to meet changing students needs and expectations. Can the education sector accommodate both sets of expectations or is there likely to be a conflict of interest? Do institutions put BCE needs before those of students? Are universities being pushed to implement commercial CRM systems without really understanding why? Is the core motivation for a university changing? Does it need to become more 'commercial' in its outlook in order to survive? We will be discussing these issues as well as those around Relationship Management in education. (Note: the details for this session may be subject to some slight change).
Tuesday 16th November 2010
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Locate, Collate and Aggregate
by James Burke
See: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Locate,_...
Innovative technical approaches related to (but not exclusively) the OER programme which are applicable to finding, using and managing content for teaching and learning, including:Building collections of OERs.
Drawing together information about learning resources
Building rich descriptions from disparate sources of information
The technical approaches that we have in mind include RSS aggregation and techniques similar to podcasting, presentation of resources through novel interfaces such as timelines and maps using geolocation data; representation of relationships between resources, using for example OAI-ORE; cross search, upload and metadata harvesting through the use of third party host APIs. We would welcome participation from current and past OER projects and others working in teaching and learning resource management.Key audiences: anyone interested in innovative use and management of teaching and learning resources
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Open Mic session
This session will be an opportunity to demonstrate and present projects you've been working on. People will be able to sign up for a number of short slots prior to the conference.
Further details to follow shortly... http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Open_Mic...
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Linked Enterprise Data in F/HE organisations
by Paul Miller
Facilitated by: Wilbert Kraan
This session will explore the potential for linked data to serve as a common (business) information layer within an institution. Increasingly mature linked data tools could enable dynamic and very diverse data sources from across an organisation to be queried and analysed. In this session, we'll explore what sorts of tools and architectures are available to institutions right now.
We'll also look at how Enterprise Architecture models and tools could be coupled to live data using the linked data approach.
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Cheaper, flexible, effective institutions: technology, politics and economics
Facilitated by: Li Yuan, Simon Grant and John Robertson
David Willetts provided some initial political impetus for thinking about low-cost, flexible and effective higher education, as reported by the BBC. (Original video on YouTube.) What can we contribute? CETIS potentially has several angles on this question, for example as mentioned in a CETIS blog, and an earlier thought-piece video gives one possible vision of what it might look like in 2030 from the points of view of different stakeholders. But while CETIS often focuses on the detail of the technology and interoperability that can enable this kind of development, we need to think about how technology interacts with political and economic realities, if our thinking is to bear fruit.
In this session, we will start by looking at the big questions in terms of how technology interacts with policy, politics and economics. What might realistically work in the UK? What might work in an overseas campus of a UK university, where the learner financial resources are much less? What, indeed, might work in a university based in a country with a developing economy?
Participants are asked to bring their knowledge of political and economic realities together with the interests of CETIS, to suggest some approaches that have a chance of working in the real world. Ideally, we would like participants to write a short piece describing the ideas they are bringing, and we will link to these from this page, as happened with the Future of Interoperability Standards September 2010 event recently.
As well as different ideas, we expect different people to bring different political and economic assumptions. We are currently anticipating asking people to say a little about the political and economic assumptions they are bringing, as part of introducing themselves at the beginning of the session, and from that, get together small groups that can work from the same assumptions to put together a vision from that point of view.
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Open Innovation (day 2)
Facilitated by: Scott Wilson
This strand is taking place across the two days and is being jointly organised by CETIS, UKOLN and OSSWatch. These two sessions will develop ideas for open innovation strategies for taking advantage of open content, open standards, open data and open source and for developing more effective partnerships for implementing them.
In recent years it has become increasingly clear that while these "open" agendas are individually useful, there is more that can be done to align them for greater effect - for example, open source implementations of open standards, open source tools for working with open content, and open source community models for sustaining innovation. There is also a greater awareness that we need to be looking more broadly at how we partner with other sectors and other types of organisations to get better value for our investment in innovation activities.
We will look at case studies, at the current state of the art in open innovation, at the range of activities undertaken in the sector, and develop practical ideas for the short, medium and longer term.
Useful links:
http://transfersummit.com/ Transfer Summit
http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/... Transfer Summit: Open Innovation-Development-Collaboration (blog post)
