eXchanging Course Related Information The UK eProspectus standard

1. 27 March 2009, Leeds, UK eXchanging Course Related InformationThe UK eProspectus standard XCRI - Save time and money promoting your college and university courses Linking London Lifelong Learning Network Alan Paull, alan@alanpaull.co.uk Information Management Consultant, APS Ltd More information: http://www.xcri.co.uk/ And thanks to Professor Mark Stubbs at MMU for some of the slides.

2. Introducing XCRI • The ‘whys’, ‘hows’ and ‘whats’ of XCRI • Current position across UK education organisations • National and European drivers • The business case: benefits • How to get started

5. Informed Choice ‘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

6. Informed Choice: not a new agenda! Next Steps Course Directory National Learning Directory unistats Training Access Points Pickup EducationUK UCAS Course Search Lifelong Learning Networks 14-19 Area Prospectuses learndirect Aimhigher Ortelius Ploteus ECCTIS The Benefits of eXchanging Course Related Information

7. History

8. XCRI is ... … about eXchanging Course Related Information … a way of describing information about learning opportunities . … the UK standard for describing course marketing information

9. XCRI is about ... definitions structure names 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. specification

10. Schema 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

11. XCRI does ... Collect once ... ... use many times Learning Provider’s system Information in XCRI-CAP format Course information system(s)

12. Transforming advertising relationships UCAS LLN UCAS LLN Course Directory Course Directory Aggregators Poll & Harvest fromProviders XML Provider re-keys & pushes for each aggregator Learning Provider Provider publishes XCRI prospectus as well as web prospectus Learning Provider WebProspectus WebProspectus

13. National drivers Jobs Careers Department for Children, Schools and Families Qualifications Standards Information Standards Board Interoperability JISC Learners XCRI-enabled services Learning provider community primitive data entry Informed choice

14. Projects, past and present Reid Kerr C Adam Smith C Newcastle Uni Bolton Uni Higher York LLN WYLLN (Huddersfield) MMU Hull Uni Edge Hill Uni E Mids, incl Leap Ahead LLN, SSC LLN, Uni of Nottingham Liverpool CCLiP Open University GMSA West Cheshire C MOVE LLN (Herts) Staffordshire Uni Middlesex Uni HW LLN (Uni of Worcester) UCAS Uni of Kent Cardiff, UWIC Bristol, UWE Oxford Uni Plymouth Uni

15. Business Case: provider perspectives 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

16. Business Case Summary • 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

17. How to get started XCRI Knowledge Base http://www.xcri.co.uk/ XCRI Self-assessment Framework http://xcrisaf.igsl.co.uk/ XCRI Technical http://www.xcri.org/ XCRI Wiki http://www.xcri.org/wiki/ XCRI Forum http://www.xcri.org/forum/

18. 27 March 2009, Leeds, UK The End eXchanging Course Related InformationThe new UK eProspectus standard XCRI: eXchanging Course Related Information CAP: Course Advertising Profile Alan Paull, alan@alanpaull.co.uk Information Management Consultant, APS Ltd More information: http://www.xcri.co.uk/

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