CETIS
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The JISC Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (JISC CETIS) is a United Kingdom
organisation funded by JISC, the Joint Information System Committee of the UK's education funding councils. JISC CETIS is funded and structured in a manner similar to other JISC services such as UKOLN
.
JISC CETIS is tasked with contributing to and providing information about learning technology with a particular focus on technical interoperability
standards
relevant to education, such as XML Schemas
for educational content, learner information (and eportfolio), learning design, assessment, accessibility and enterprise systems.
JISC CETIS originally began operation in 1998 as the UK IMS Centre, as in its early days it was primarily an organisation devoted to the development and dissemination of open technical specifications as part of the IMS Global Learning Consortium
. It later became known as CETIS, the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards.
Since then, CETIS broadened its remit to work with a range of standards organizations relevant to the UK education sector.
On 1 August 2006, CETIS became a formal JISC service and its name changed to JISC CETIS.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
organisation funded by JISC, the Joint Information System Committee of the UK's education funding councils. JISC CETIS is funded and structured in a manner similar to other JISC services such as UKOLN
UKOLN
Formerly known as The United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking, UKOLN is a centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities...
.
JISC CETIS is tasked with contributing to and providing information about learning technology with a particular focus on technical interoperability
Interoperability
Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together . The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to...
standards
Standardization
Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....
relevant to education, such as XML Schemas
XML schema
An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself...
for educational content, learner information (and eportfolio), learning design, assessment, accessibility and enterprise systems.
JISC CETIS originally began operation in 1998 as the UK IMS Centre, as in its early days it was primarily an organisation devoted to the development and dissemination of open technical specifications as part of the IMS Global Learning Consortium
IMS Global
IMS Global Learning Consortium is a global, nonprofit, member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in the education and corporate learning sectors worldwide...
. It later became known as CETIS, the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards.
Since then, CETIS broadened its remit to work with a range of standards organizations relevant to the UK education sector.
On 1 August 2006, CETIS became a formal JISC service and its name changed to JISC CETIS.