Start date: 1 December 2007
End date: 30 May 2008
Funding programme: e-Learning Capital programme
Project website:
http://www.alanpaull.co.uk/xim/
JISC theme(s): e-Administration, e-Learning
Committees: JISC Learning and Teaching committee
Overview
XIM is a JISC-funded mini-project that will produce a set of good practice models for implementation of XCRI-CAP, so that HEIs and others can use the outputs for their own implementations. The project will review all current implementations and projects relating to the XCRI information model, together with existing material about institutional courses information management systems, in order to draw up characteristics of institutions, to identify relevant problems and solutions. Visit the blog for updates from the project.
Aims and Objectives
The project aims to help HEIs and other organisations to implement XCRI-CAP driven services to facilitate the exchange and re-use of course advertising information.
Project Methodology
The project will investigate the usage of XCRI-CAP in HEIs and data collecting organisations, building on earlier XCRI work, including the XCRI-CAP mini-projects, APS' work for GMSA within the ioNW2 Project and initial work with Hotcourses, Ufi and UCAS. The organisations' management of course advertising information will be described through assessing their position on a variety of scales, for example:
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
The main project outcome is to promote the use of XCRI-CAP to organisations using, collecting and disseminating course advertising information, by providing practical business-driven solutions. The project will produce a series of generic business process templates for organisations to use by matching their own characteristics with those modelled, in order to identify common problems and solutions.
The project will deliver:
- A characterisation of organisational use of course advertising information.
- Scenarios and business process models for use of XCRI-CAP within common points in the characterisation.
- Descriptions of common problems and solutions, dependent on organisational characteristics. These will address specifically ICT, political and process problems, and will include a description of the pre-requisites for successful implementation, dependent on the type of organisation - HEI, other educational establishment, data collecting organisation - and its characteristics.
- A service genre for submission to the e-Framework on publishing and/or exchanging course advertising information.