XCRI in the East MidlandsLinking London LLN
26th January 2011
Kirstie CoolinCentre for International ePortfolio Development
Research and Learning Resources DivisionInformation Services
University of Nottingham
www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio
The Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD) are an autonomous Centre within the University of Nottingham’s Information Services School.
Our aims are to deliver projects that maximise the efficiency of information flow in order to support educational stakeholders access seamless ICT services and quality information.
The East Midlands
Developed XCRI for 2 Lifelong Learning Networks
NottinghamshireDerbyshire
LeicestershireLincolnshireNorthamptonshireRutland
… and on JISC-funded XCRI projects
Finished projects…
2008/9: Leap Ahead Lifelong Learning Network for Notts & DerbysDeveloping XCRI awareness and exports among FE/HE partners in
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
2009: JISC 14-19 Prospectus Pilot in the East MidlandsPiloting export and aggregation of Connexions’ Area Prospectus data
within the East Midlands
2009: JISC XCRI/X-Border ProjectDeveloping export and import with Area Prospectuses to support x-
border, recommendations to Department For Education
XCRI: CIePD’s East Midlands Projects
2010: JISC Robust Transformation Import for XCRI (ROBOT-xcri)Improving the export/aggregation with Aimhigher’s Your Future East
Midlands
2010: SSCLLN Lifelong Learning Network for Leics, Northants, Lincs & Rutland
Developing XCRI awareness and exports among FE/HE partners
XCRI: CIePD’s East Midlands Projects
Finished projects…
2010-2011: Shared Aggregation of LAbour Market Information (SALAMI)Linking XCRi to raw LMI data for dynamic aggregation and new LMI services
2010-2011: CUMULUSLed by Roehampton, Developing XCRI webservices around Unit4 ACMS to allow it to ‘plug in’ to other systems.
Current projects…
XCRI: CIePD’s East Midlands Projects
5 Area Prospectuses
5 Area Prospectuses
Prospectus vendors (S-cool/
UCAS)
Prospectus vendors (S-cool/
UCAS)
9+ Further Education Colleges
9+ Further Education Colleges
Your Future East Midlands
Your Future East Midlands
14-19 local course prospectus websites
3+ Higher Education3+ Higher Education
Consuming services
Consuming services
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Skills Funding Agency
Skills Funding Agency
Imports being developed by national course aggregators
Import/export to neighbouring local prospectus for x-border searching
XCRI feed export providing search services for external websites
Kirstie CoolinUniversity of Nottingham
November 2010
Possibility of reusing aggregated XCRI exports
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Re-use XCRI to connect with other data sources, e.g. LMI (SALAMI project)
VendorsVendors
Our Results | XCRI• Castle College
• New College Nottingham
• University of Nottingham
• North Notts College
• Derby College
• West Notts College
• Nottingham Trent University
• Gateway College
• Wyggeston & QEI College
• Northampton College
• University of Lincoln
• Lincoln College
• Leicestershire Area Prospectus
• Lincolnshire Area Prospectus
• Nottinghamshire Area Prospectus
• Derbyshire Area Prospectus
• Northamptonshire Area Prospectus
• Your Future East Midlands Aggregator
• CHEA North Midlands (Consuming)The Centre for International ePortfolio Development
XCRI: Implementing XCRIA two phase approach
Phase 1:1. Meet with the Web Development, MIS and Marketing Managers.
2. Obtain an overview of current systems (e.g. platform/software/database)
3. Identify how the website courses are populated
4. Allocation technical resource to develop the XCRI export feed
5. Identify how resultant XCRI export fits into their future plans. A straightforward export will take around 1-2 days to develop, but where systems and processes are more fragmented, then the discussions will form around phase 2
6. Publish the XCRI feed to the web
XCRI: Institutional benefitsWhat courses do we actually offer?Phase 2A wider institutional approach to data management
Goal An accurate, authoritative and re-usable single
source of course information
XCRI: Institutional benefits
Benefits of the journey- Identifies a common goal- Cross-institutional, technical and non-technical
working group- generally IT, MIS, Marketing, admissions
- Discussion of the ‘full course journey’, systems and procedure
More efficient information management
XCRI feed re-usable amongst internal and external systems
More responsive to change
XCRI: What changes have to be made?Remember: XCRI is not a system
• Changes to databases or servers are minimal, XCRI ‘sits on top’ of existing services
• Cost of initial implementation is low, involving some initial software development from IT/MIS
** XCRI implementation will mean improving current internal processes – the scale of implementation is up to you **
XCRI links
• National XCRI websitehttp://www.xcri.co.uk/
• CIePD XCRI websitehttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio/xcri
• Self assessment framework http://xcrisaf.igsl.co.uk/
Thank You
Kirstie Coolin [email protected] Wood [email protected]
University of NottinghamCentre for International ePortfolio Development
www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio
