10122009 XCRI Briefing Slide 1

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Reference Models Briefing MeetingBirmingham, UK
XCRI eXchanging Course-Related Information
Dr Mark Stubbs
Project Manager Manchester Metropolitan
University m.stubbs_at_mmu.ac.uk http//www.elframe
work.org/projects/xcri
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xcri what

• XCRI Course Advertising Profile
• A candidate XML standard for describing courses

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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
Ian Martin, OU
Vashti Zarach, CETIS
Mark Leyland, MOVE
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 possibilities
Institutions Publish XCRI XML
Learners Search the Aggregator
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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



www.elframework.org/projects/xcri/cap.xsd
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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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Reference Models Briefing MeetingBirmingham, UK
XCRI eXchanging Course-Related
Informationthanks for listening any questions?
Dr Mark Stubbs
Project Manager Manchester Metropolitan
University m.stubbs_at_mmu.ac.uk http//www.elframe
work.org/projects/xcri