IdeaLab 2006 Melbourne, Australia XCRI | eXchanging Course-Related Information Scott Wilson Technical Advisor University of Bolton Scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com Dr Mark Stubbs Project Manager Manchester Metropolitan University m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk http://www.elframework.org/projects/xcri

E-Admission Course Advertising E-Application Portfolio Curriculum Stats Learner Trails E-Admission Pathways Advice Applicant Feedback Course Details Course Search Entry Requirements Course Advertising Learner Goals E-Application Entry Profiles Personal Statements References Evidence of Achievement Portfolio Acquired/Required Competence Curriculum Management Transcripts Personal Development Planning Course Approval Course Modification Student Records Assessment Results

XCRI Course Advertising Profile: xcri | what XCRI Course Advertising Profile: A candidate XML specification for describing courses A [service expression] for a ‘Courses‘(?) [service genre] in the e-framework (there are others related to XCRI in curriculum development) Derived from the XCRI reference model, which describes the components of curriculum documents used in the curriculum development workflow and the [service expressions] needed (see also COVARM)

National agenda of ‘informed choice’ about learning opportunities. xcri | why National agenda of ‘informed choice’ about learning opportunities. Standards exist for exchanging information about people, groups and membership but no standard way to exchange information about courses. Institutions developing ways to populate their prospectus from definitive data but resorting to primitive data entry to populate aggregator sites, regional portals, ... etc. Genuine interest from the community in a standard for exchanging course information.

xcri | history Q1 2005 XCRI project devised by CETIS Enterprise SIG spin-off + UCAS Q2 2005 Existing standards reviewed (Norway’s CDM closest) Q3 2005 UK prospectus websites reviewed (161!) Case studies of existing practice produced from site visits Q4 2005 R1.0 XML schema developed through prototyping & critique Q1 2006 R1.0 XML schema tested with Plymouth-UCAS, Oxford Uni CPD, Reid Kerr Prospectus & Liverpool Learning Matrix Regional Portal Searchable curriculum repository demonstrated Q2 2006 XML used at Adam Smith College to generate PDF course brochures Report produced on competence modelling and XCRI Q3 2006 Existing XCRI deployments & authoring options reviewed Optimised Course Advertising Profile XML schema released Q4 2006 JISC to fund trials of the XCRI CAP + demonstration aggregator

xcri | contributors Virtual organisation, PM = Mark Stubbs | m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk Michael Aherne, Reid Kerr Tavis Reddick, Adam Smith Scott Wilson, CETIS Ben Ryan, Kainao Julie Hardman, MMU Anthony Beal, LLMX Roger Clark, LLMX Simon Grant, CETIS Mark Leyland, MOVE Vashti Zarach, CETIS Alan Paull, UCAS consultant Paul Walk, ex London Met now UKOLN Selwyn Lloyd, Phosphorix Adam Marshall, Oxford www.elframework.org/projects/xcri

xcri | cap structure * * * provider course presentation venue + identifier + name + description[] + address[] + street + town + postcode + phone + fax + email + url + image + identifier + title + description[] + url + image + dc:any[] + qualification[] Vocab for typed description Aim Asssessment Strategy Career Outcome Entry Profile Indicative Resource Learning Outcome Policy Provided Resource Regulations Required Resource Special Feature Support Structure Syllabus Teaching Strategy + identifier + description[] + start + end + duration + studyMode + languageOfInstruction[] + languageOfAssessment[] + placesAvailable + cost + entryRequirements + applyFrom + applyUntil + applyTo Vocab for typed description Application Procedure Contact Hours Contact Pattern Study Hours + identifier + name + description[] + address[] + street + town + postcode + phone + fax + email + url + image * * * (This largely maps into IETF Atom and DCES) www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd

xcri | cap service expression Level 1: Pure aggregation, RSS/Atom style - “course info feeds” Level 2: OAI-PMH protocol carrying XCRI-CAP metadata Binding options of format: Complete XCRI-CAP schema (current) IETF Atom extensions Microformat approach Attribute set for SRU/W+CQL search service? www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd

xcri | example implementation

xcri | example implementation

xcri | example implementation Institutions Publish XCRI XML Learners Search the Aggregator

xcri | current projects GMSA Learning Matrix Liverpool SURF (not the Dutch one) UCAS Oxford Assisted take-up funding from JISC JISC E-Admissions process improvement programme

Submit CAP to standardization process (TBD) xcri | future work Submit CAP to standardization process (TBD) Do the whole e-framework SUM thing… Support workflow of developing authoritative curriculum definitions (hard to do) Pathway analysis (really hard to do) Acquired/required competencies (don’t go there)

xcri | find out more www.elframework.org/projects/xcri FAQs Project Manager’s blog Outputs Review of Norway’s CDM Content-harvesting case studies 160+ prospectus sites survey Business case for adoption R1.0 schema & XML & case studies Web service demonstrator Sample XSL Transforms Presentations & Papers XCRI & Competence Report CAP schema & sample XML www.elframework.org/projects/xcri

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