Alan Paull, alan@alanpaull.co.ukInformation Management Consultant, APS Ltd

More information: http://www.xcri.co.uk/And thanks to Professor Mark Stubbs at MMU for some of the slides.

27 March 2009, Leeds, UK

XCRI - Save time and money promoting your college and university coursesLinking London Lifelong Learning Network

The ‘whys’, ‘hows’ and ‘whats’ of XCRI

Current position across UK education organisations

National and European driversThe business case: benefitsHow to get started

‘Many prospective students do not get adequate advice or information to help them choose a course of study’Browne, Oct 2010

‘The consultation proposes that providers of higher education should review their approach to publishing information for prospective students. It suggests that a standardised set of key facts for each course should be published on institutions’ web-sites. This information would be called the Key Information Set (KIS)’HEFCE, Dec 2010

‘In our 2008 report, we suggested that universities should publish a standard set of information setting out what students can expect from their academic programme – we are pleased to see that the coalition government will be taking this forward’National Student Forum, Annual Report 2010

The Benefits of eXchanging Course Related Information

Training Access Points

ECCTIS

UCAS Course

Search

National Learning Directory

Next Steps

Course

Directory

Aimhigher

Ortelius

Ploteus

Lifelong Learning

Networks

14-19 Area Prospectuses

Pickup

unistats

learndirect

EducationUK

2005 JISC fund XCRI “Reference Model” project. Team review international standards, e-prospectus websites (161+) & site visits; R1.0 XCRI schema.

2006 XCRI tools prototyped: XCRI>PDF brochures & ReST Xpath search. Existing deployment reviewed & optimised XCRI CAP 1.0 released. JISC fund XCRI CAP 1.0 trials, demo aggregator & xcri.org support

2007 DfES and Becta briefed. XCRI adopted as ‘preferred approach’ by LSC. Bolton, OU, Oxford, MMU & Staffs CAP feeds read by demo aggregator. CEN WS-LT & vendor meetings for European MLO harmonization begin.

2008 JISC funds CAP 1.1 pilots. XCRI champion elected to DIUS/DCSF ISB. GMSA, Edge Hill, W Cheshire, Kent XCRI feeds. CEN WS-LT Agreement on MLO => European Norm; E Mid, Huddersfield, Teesside, Worcester start XCRI projects.

2009 DCSF’s Action Plan for 14-19 Prospectus recommends adoption in 14-19 sector by 2010. ISB approves XCRI-CAP 1.1 as national eProspectus standard. E Mids 14-19 Pilot; non-JISC-funded work continues.

2010 Recommendations to DCSF. Dev’t of XCRI-CAP 1.2. Mini-projects: Bolton, Cardiff (UWIC), Hull, Huddersfield, Newcastle, Nottingham. MLO European Norm expected to be ratified. XCRI Benefits Realisation project (August 2010).

… the UK standard for describing course marketing information

… a way of describing information about learning opportunities

… about eXchanging Course Related Information

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structure structure definitionsdefinitionsnames names

specificationspecification

providers advertise courses

courses are presented for enrolment any number of times through presentations

presentations instantiate courses

A presentation is a particular instance of the course offered at a particular time and place and is the entity to which learners apply. Alternative names for this type of structure include course offering and course instance.

Catalog @generated

Provideridentifier*, title*, subject*, description*, relation*, url, image, address

Courseidentifier*, title*, subject*, description*, relation*, url, image, qualification*, credit*Presentationidentifier*, title*, subject*, description*, relation*, url, image, start, end, duration, studyMode, attendanceMode, attendancePattern, languageOfInstruction, languageOfAssessment, placesAvailable, cost, enquireTo, applyFrom, applyUntil, applyTo, entryProfile*, entryRequirements*, venue*

* = multiples permitted

Learning Provider’s system

Information inXCRI-CAP format

Course information system(s)

Collect once ...Collect once ... ... use many times

... use many times

LearningProvider

UCAS LLN

WebProspectus

Providerre-keys & pushes for eachaggregator

CourseDirectory

LearningProvider

UCAS LLN

WebProspectus

XML

AggregatorsPoll & Harvest fromProviders

ProviderpublishesXCRI prospectusas well as webprospectus

CourseDirectory

Informed choice

Standards

Interoperability

Learners

Learning provider community

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Information Standards Board

JISC XCRI-enabled services

JobsCareers

Qualifications

Reid Kerr C

Bolton Uni

UCAS

Oxford Uni

Middlesex Uni

WYLLN (Huddersfield)MMU

E Mids, incl Leap Ahead LLN, SSC LLN, Uni of NottinghamLiverpool CCLiP

MOVE LLN (Herts)

Adam Smith C

Plymouth Uni

Open UniversityGMSA

HW LLN (Uni of Worcester)

Edge Hill Uni

West Cheshire C

Higher York LLN

Staffordshire Uni

Uni of Kent

Hull Uni

Cardiff, UWIC

Newcastle Uni

Bristol, UWE

From XCRI Knowledge Base (www.xcri.co.uk):

"XCRI has had a significant impact on systems effectiveness and has saved us time and money in the production and distribution of our course marketing information." Fiona Carey, Assistant Director, Communications, Student Services, The Open University

“…XCRI and CAP has led us in many fruitful directions, including geospatial mapping, mobile portals, and re-examining internal data. Most important, however, was the stimulation and exemplar it continues to offer in the use of open and linked data.“Sebastian Rahtz, Information and Support Group Manager, Oxford University Computing Services

Learning Providers internal efficiency gains through process improvements cost savings on data input strategic capability through better understanding of its

offerings quality assurance, standardisation, and consolidation of

duplicate offerings

Course Collecting Organisations availability of more providers better quality – more frequent update, better coverage,

greater accuracy, better integrated ‘supply chain’ new value-added services

The Benefits of eXchanging Course Related Information

XCRI Knowledge Basehttp://www.xcri.co.uk/

XCRI Self-assessment Framework

http://xcrisaf.igsl.co.uk/

XCRI Technicalhttp://www.xcri.org/

XCRI Wikihttp://www.xcri.org/

wiki/

XCRI Forumhttp://www.xcri.org/

forum/

Alan Paull, alan@alanpaull.co.ukInformation Management Consultant, APS Ltd

More information: http://www.xcri.co.uk/

27 March 2009, Leeds, UK

XCRI: eXchanging Course Related InformationCAP: Course Advertising Profile

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