Projects Involving XCRI
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| The project addressed institutional inertia in large monolithic business systems and showed that hosting applications in the "cloud" and using SOA can offer new flexibility for institutions better to match business need with system availability. The project included mapping ACMS data to XCRI r1.0. |
2011-09 |
University of Roehampton |
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ENABLE, Staffs University |
The project has been sponsored by JISC and will enable Staffordshire University to join together its various change initiatives around curriculum development into a coherent and radical overall change process, which will ensure all stakeholder needs are understood, and identify overlooked issues, bringing them into the consciousness of the senior management team. | 2012-06 | Staffs University |
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Integrated Programme and Module System, University of Exeter |
iPaMS was a JISC funded project to develop a programme and module management system. | 2011-02 |
University of Exeter |
| The Supporting Responsive Curricula Project is one of 12 Projects that JISC funded under its Curriculum Design Call. The project's first task was to define the needs of employers and professional bodies in terms of competences. Secondly, the project will examine MMU’s internal review and modification processes in an attempt to improve and speed-up the process of modifying and creating courses and units. Thirdly, the project will support students in showcasing the competences associated with the units they are studying in order to publish them electronically for employers and professional bodies to view. |
2012-06 |
Manchester Metropolitan University |
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| The project supported the further development and use of the XCRI specification. | 2011-08 |
JISC |
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| Piloting the use of XCRI within the East Midlands region to facilitate the movement and aggregation of courses data from learning providers, area prospectuses and a regional progression pathways system. | 2010-06 | Centre for International ePortfolio Development at University of Nottingham | |
| A prototype service for accurate subject searching |
APS Ltd ADSET InGenius Solutions Ltd |
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| The objective of BoXCRIP was to implement and test the XCRI schema against the full University course catalogue containing undergraduate, postgraduate, FE, CPD and short courses and their sub-components. | 2007-08 | University of Bolton | |
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Bolton University, Module Database mini-project, final report |
The module database was redesigned and implemented as a core piece of information architecture to support new approaches to course development, promotion, information sharing and reuse. | 2010-11 | University of Bolton |
| The Culture Campus Liverpool Portal (CCLiP) project was funded by the JISC, to develop and implement the use of appropriate technologies and processes to enable HE-level learning services that meet the needs of learners in the workplace, and of their employers. | 2010-09 | Culture Campus Liverpool Portal (CCLiP) | |
| Dynamic web-based maps are a fusion of formal curriculum maps, personal learning records, and community-driven maps. | Newcastle University | ||
| Edge Hill University's XCRI courses information project | 2008-08 | Edge Hill University | |
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EPICS 2 |
Using XCRI-CAP for sharing workshop information | ||
| This project tested the state of readiness of The University of Huddersfield’s databases and record systems for XCRi-CAP implementation. | 2009-04 | University of Huddersfield | |
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University of Hull - CPD for Health and Social Care, mini-project, final report |
Final report of the University of Hull CPD for Health and Social Care XCRI mini-project | 2010-08 | University of Hull |
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MOVE-XCRI, MOVE LLN |
Supporting the MOVE lifelong learning network by automating the input of course information from a sample of partner colleges using XCRI, through a system based on ioNodes. | 2008-01 | MOVE lifelong learning network |
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MUSKET, Middlesex University Skills and Education Planning Tool project |
Project to deliver two software tools: one that will allow non-technical specialists to import MS Word documents containing course descriptions, provide semantic mark-up, and export into the JISC XCRI-CAP standard creating a database; one that will support employer-led learner route planning. |
2011-08 | Middlesex University |
| Final report and further information about OCCAM, the Open University's XCRI-CAP 1.0 mini-project | 2007-09 | The Open University | |
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OXCRI, University of Oxford mini-project report |
Final report of the OXCRI mini-project, involving Oxford University Computing Services, Oxford University Careers Service and Department of Continuing Education | 2007-10 | Oxford University |
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North East XCRI Test-bed (NEXT), Newcastle University (with Durham University), mini-project, final report |
The North East XCRI Test-bed (NEXT) mini-project investigated the application of XCRI, in a number of contexts including support for education and training delivered by multiple providers. | 2010-11 | Newcastle University (with Durham University) |
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Postgraduate Research Administration Module (PRAM), University of Nottingham |
The project aimed to disaggregate the Unit4’s Agresso Student Management product to provide a free standing module for the administration of postgraduate research students. The resulting module will integrate with existing systems through a suite of web services and an enterprise service bus interfaces. |
2011-06 | University of Nottingham |
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Programme Specifications Domain Map (P-SPEX) project, Thames Valley University |
This project undertook a case study based analysis of the business domain impacting and containing all interactions with Programme Specification production and usage. The case study was used to develop a Domain Map for Programme Specification. The Domain Map delivered from the project included a variety of models, descriptions and implemented Java based services for submission to the E-Framework. |
2009-03 |
Thames Valley University |
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ROBOT-XCRI, University of Nottingham, mini-project, final report |
Final report and further information about ROBOT-XCRI, University of Nottingham's XCRI mini-project working with Aimhigher in the East Midlands | 2010-08 | University of Nottingham |
| The aim of this project is to develop a shared IT-as-a-service for learners, employees and institutions which accepts standardised course information from an XCRI data feed and exports a dynamic summary of relevant Labour Market Information (LMI) in an appropriate template to the sending institution. | 2011-08 | University of Nottingham | |
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SAMSON, Shared Architecture for eMployer, Student and Organisational Networking |
SAMSON, a JISC-funded project, focused on providing a joined-up experience for Nottingham postgraduates on work placements. | 2011-05 | University of Nottingham |
| A learner portal for each sector (Health and Social Care and Creative Businesses) will enable learners in employment to plan routes for their career and personal development, and provide ways to search for learning opportunities from multiple providers that fit their needs. | |||
| Our project aimed to develop a course catalogue that could export data in XCRI-CAP. | Staffs University | ||
| A test implementation of XCRI-CAP at the University of Worcester. | 2009-05 | University of Worcester | |
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The aim of the project was to pilot both the generation of XCRI-CAP within the FE sector and also the exporting of the college’s course information using XCRI-CAP into an appropriate web service. |
2008-09 | West Cheshire College | |
| WYXCRI CPD, University of Huddersfield, mini-project, final report | West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network's XCRI-CAP mini-project. The project produced a software interface to permit XCRI-CAP enabled keying of CPD course information and output of it via a web service. |
2010-08 | University of Huddersfield |
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X-CERP, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), mini-project, final report |
University of Wales Institute Cardiff's XCRI-CAP mini-project | 2010-10 | University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) |
| The XCRI mini-project provides a great opportunity to allow the University of Kent to provide searchable course information on its own web pages, while providing the same information to other institutions through the XCRI standard. | 2008-08 | Kent | |
| Manchester Metropolitan University's XCRI mini-project | 2007-09 | MMU | |
| XCRI Implementation Models (XIM) project - synthesis of good practice to 2008 | 2008 | APS Ltd |
