The JISC CETIS Conference 2006
Hi All,
Well I have just returned from the third annual JISC-CETIS Conference.
There was not as many people attending this year in comparison with last years conference held in Heriot Watt University, but there was still a good crowd there. This years conference was called 'Linking Formal and Informal Learning'.
The conference kicked off with a presentation by Bill Olivier, Director of Development (Systems and Technology) JISC, where he explained his views on what the JISC priorities for the forthcoming year was and what had changed since last year. Bill also mentioned how we were moving from using Reference Models to using Domain Maps. He also mentioned that if anyone had interesting projects that might benefit from a TECHWATCH report to contact Gaynor Backhouse. I had not heard about TECHWATCH before but its is a very useful and publication and worth checking out.
Next Up Prof Oleg Liber, spoke a little while on the New JISC-CETIS Service, moving CETIS from a project to a SERVICE offered by JISC. So the new JISC CETIS Service is a service run by the CETIS team in Bolton. A bit confusing but good news for all of us.
We then had a really cool Keynote speech from Ernest Adams, a games designer from the states. His talk was entitled 'The Philosophical roots of games design' and was very interesting.
All Keynotes and major presentations will be available from the Conference website
After that we split into our strands for the next two days. Some strands ran over two days , these were :-
1) Future of educational media
2) Personal Learning environments :inclusion, pedagogy and informal learning
Other one day strands were offered on the following topics
1)Identity, games and synthetic worlds
2)Identity, Portfolio's and Personalisation
3)Architecture of Service Mashups
4)Thinking the Unthinkable
5)Assessment and Personalisation
6)Future of Educational Institutions
I went to the PLE sessions both days as it is of most interest to me. The scope of the group had been increased this year to include inclusion and accessibility which was ok however we spent most of the first day looking a various projects that were implementing the IMS LD spec, not one of my specialist areas but it has made me think about LD a lot more and I will be checking the reload tool out again. Also there were a few presentations about what certain people had been up too. Dai Griffiths gave us an update on the TenCompetence Project and Mark from CETIS gave us a update on what he had been doing with Flock and XUL, then a very interesting presentation from Raymond Elferink on his repository program.
The second day we split into our stands groups again, and tried to work on what the JISC-CETIS priorities for the next year were and this will go on the JISC CETIS website soon.
It was a very informative conference and was nice to see that we are all working in the same direction
Stefano :)
Well I have just returned from the third annual JISC-CETIS Conference.
There was not as many people attending this year in comparison with last years conference held in Heriot Watt University, but there was still a good crowd there. This years conference was called 'Linking Formal and Informal Learning'.
The conference kicked off with a presentation by Bill Olivier, Director of Development (Systems and Technology) JISC, where he explained his views on what the JISC priorities for the forthcoming year was and what had changed since last year. Bill also mentioned how we were moving from using Reference Models to using Domain Maps. He also mentioned that if anyone had interesting projects that might benefit from a TECHWATCH report to contact Gaynor Backhouse. I had not heard about TECHWATCH before but its is a very useful and publication and worth checking out.
Next Up Prof Oleg Liber, spoke a little while on the New JISC-CETIS Service, moving CETIS from a project to a SERVICE offered by JISC. So the new JISC CETIS Service is a service run by the CETIS team in Bolton. A bit confusing but good news for all of us.
We then had a really cool Keynote speech from Ernest Adams, a games designer from the states. His talk was entitled 'The Philosophical roots of games design' and was very interesting.
All Keynotes and major presentations will be available from the Conference website
After that we split into our strands for the next two days. Some strands ran over two days , these were :-
1) Future of educational media
2) Personal Learning environments :inclusion, pedagogy and informal learning
Other one day strands were offered on the following topics
1)Identity, games and synthetic worlds
2)Identity, Portfolio's and Personalisation
3)Architecture of Service Mashups
4)Thinking the Unthinkable
5)Assessment and Personalisation
6)Future of Educational Institutions
I went to the PLE sessions both days as it is of most interest to me. The scope of the group had been increased this year to include inclusion and accessibility which was ok however we spent most of the first day looking a various projects that were implementing the IMS LD spec, not one of my specialist areas but it has made me think about LD a lot more and I will be checking the reload tool out again. Also there were a few presentations about what certain people had been up too. Dai Griffiths gave us an update on the TenCompetence Project and Mark from CETIS gave us a update on what he had been doing with Flock and XUL, then a very interesting presentation from Raymond Elferink on his repository program.
The second day we split into our stands groups again, and tried to work on what the JISC-CETIS priorities for the next year were and this will go on the JISC CETIS website soon.
It was a very informative conference and was nice to see that we are all working in the same direction
Stefano :)
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