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The CETIS Special Interest groups
CETIS (The Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) represents UK Higher and Further Education on international learning standards initiatives, disseminates information on e-learning specifications, and provides a forum for people implementing e-learning specifications to share experiences and best practice.
CETIS is funded by JISC, and run from Bolton Institute, in partnership with Bangor University
in North Wales, and the Open University.
Read more at the main CETIS website:
What is CETIS?
The SIGs (Special Interest Groups) were set up to enable communities of interest to discuss individual IMS specifications. A Forum and a Focus Group have also been set up to discuss wider issues relating to online learning. The SIGs are intended to:
- 1. represent UK arguments on the development of a specification
2. track all standardisation efforts in the particular area
3. test and evaluate any released specification, hopefully using real life examples
4. disseminate their work widely across UK HE and FE
There are currently eight CETIS SIGs:
The SIGs
1. The Metadata SIG
The CETIS Metadata SIG is co-ordinated by Phil Barker, who is based in Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The SIG provides a forum for discussing metadata, which are data to describe data; i.e. tags which give descriptive information about learning resources.
Links:
The Metadata SIG website.
IMS Learning Resource Metadata Specification.
2. The Assessment SIG
The Assessment SIG focuses on interoperability of online question and tests, i.e. enabling tests and answers to be re-used, and exchanged between systems. The SIG is co-ordinated by Rowin Young at the University of Strathclyde.
Links:
The Assessment SIG website.
IMS Question and Test Interoperability Specification.
3. The Learner Information Package SIG
The Learner Information Package SIG, commonly known as the LIPSIG, is co-ordinated by Rob Ward at the Centre for
Recording Achievement in Wigan, and Peter Rees Jones at the University of Leeds.
The IMS Learner Information Package Specification sets out formats for creating a
profiles of an individual learner's abilities, qualifications, informal skills, and learning
preferences. The SIG is closely linked to the Enterprise SIG, which also concentrates on exchanging information about
learners between systems, although in far less detail.
Links:
The Learner Information Package SIG
website.
IMS Learner Information Package Specification.
4. The Educational Content SIG
The EC SIG is co-ordinated by Sheila MacNeill at the University of Strathclyde. The SIG discusses issues relating to a variety of specifications developed to enable educational content to be interoperable, including the Content Packaging, Simple Sequencing and Learning Design Specifications.
Links:
The Educational Content SIG Website.
IMS Content Packaging Specification.
IMS Learning Design Specification.
IMS Simple Sequencing Specification
5. The Accessibility SIG
The Accessibility SIG focuses on the IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications, a guide to developing learning technology which is accessible for learners with disabilities, and generally suited to all learners with a range of learning preferences. The SIG is co-ordinated by Sharon Perry, at the University of Wales, Bangor.
Links:
The Accessibility SIG website.
The IMS Guidelines for Developing
Accessible Learning Applications.
6. The Enterprise SIG
The Enterprise SIG supports the use of the Enterprise Specification, which is designed to enable information about learners and courses to be exchanged between different systems and institutions. The SIG is co-ordinated by Vashti Zarach at the University of Wales, Bangor.
Links:
The Enterprise SIG website.
IMS Enterprise Specification.
7. The Further Education Focus Group
The Further Education Focus Group discusses issues relating to Further Education institutions, and promotes awareness of interoperability in the FE sector. The group is coordinated by Steve Jeyes , Clive Church and Shelagh Brumpton.
Links:
Further Education Focus Group
website.
8. The Pedagogy Forum
The Pedagogy Forum is coordinated by Lisa Corley, who is based at the University of Bolton . The Forum will explore pedagogical issues relating to teaching using technology.
Link:
The Pedagogy Forum website.
IMS Learning Design Specification.