XCRI Workshop - Manchester Metropolitan University

On the 9th of September Mark Stubbs introduced the XCRI standard – providing an overview of the background of the original project and also a summary of the current standardisation activity across Europe.
In the UK, now XCRI-CAP 1.1 is the national e-prospectus standard and is also conformant to the MLO standard in Europe- meta data for learning opportunities.
Mark outlined XCRI contributions to EU activity related to Course descriptions and the resultant emerging EU standardisation artifacts. The resultant European Learner Mobility Information Model is now a standard about to go to approval and is implemented by conformant bindings e.g. XCRI-CAP.
For MUSKET, the XCRI activity presents an interesting opportunity for making further contribution to the validation and evaluation of XCRI. Following a discussion, it is clear that while XCRI-CAP is able to describe academic course offerings there is little or none empirical evidence of how well commercial course provision conforms to the XCRI-CAP model. This is something that MUSKET will explore as we are currently investigating commercial course descriptions from several companies.

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