30102009 XCRI Briefing Slide 1

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IdeaLab 2006Melbourne, Australia
XCRI eXchanging Course-Related Information
Dr Mark Stubbs
Scott Wilson Technical Advisor University of
Bolton Scott.bradley.wilson_at_gmail.com
Project Manager Manchester Metropolitan
University m.stubbs_at_mmu.ac.uk http//www.elframe
work.org/projects/xcri
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Admission Stats
E-Admission
Pathways Advice
Learner Trails
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
Student Records
Course Modification
Assessment Results
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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)

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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.

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xcri history
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xcri contributors

• Virtual organisation, PM Mark Stubbs
  m.stubbs_at_mmu.ac.uk

Michael Aherne, Reid Kerr
Tavis Reddick, Adam Smith
Scott Wilson, CETIS
Ben Ryan, Kainao
Julie Hardman, MMU
Anthony Beal, LLMXRoger Clark, LLMX
Simon Grant, CETIS
Mark Leyland, MOVE
Vashti Zarach, CETIS
Paul Walk, ex London Met now UKOLN
Alan Paull, UCAS consultant
Selwyn Lloyd, Phosphorix
Adam Marshall, Oxford
www.elframework.org/projects/xcri
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xcri cap structure
provider
course
presentation
venue
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
identifier name description address
street town postcode phone fax email
url image
identifier title description url
image dcany 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



(This largely maps into IETF Atom and DCES)
www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd
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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/WCQL search service?

www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd
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xcri example implementation
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xcri example implementation
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xcri example implementation
Institutions Publish XCRI XML
Learners Search the Aggregator
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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

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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 (dont go there)

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xcri find out more

• FAQs
• Project Managers blog
• Outputs
• Review of Norways 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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XCRI eXchanging Course-Related
Informationthanks for listening any questions?
http//www.elframework.org/projects/xcri