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About CETIS groups
February 26, 2002
Background
The growth in importance and the rapid uptake of eLearning in recent
years has given a great impetus to efforts in learning technology interoperability,
notably in IMS but also in Europe with CEN/ISSS and in the IEEE and
ISO. It rapidly became evident that CETIS core staff could not hope
to play a major role in all of these bodies and also be involved in
the whole gamut of interoperability standards areas, covering content,
metadata, enterprise, question and test, learner information, accessibility
and learning design. To spread the workload across UK HE and FE institutions
seemed a good idea, and so CETIS negotiated a Special Interest group
programme with JCIEL, who agreed to fund coordinators for a number of
CETIS Groups, each to run for 18 months. A call for proposals was made,
and from these co-ordinators for the first three groups were chosen,
covering Metadata, Question and Test, and Profiles and Enterprise. More
information on these is found elsewhere on this site.
Role
CETIS Groups coordinators have the responsibility to invite and organise
participation from UK HE and FE colleges in CETIS Groups. Depending
the state of any specification, these groups will:
- represent UK arguments on the development of a specification
- track all standardisation efforts in the particular area
- test and evaluate any released specification, hopefully using real life examples
- disseminate their work widely across UK HE and FE
CETIS will oversee the work of coordinators, and ensure that there is
coordination across the different groups.
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