Projects

This page holds information on some of the many projects that we've been involved in that may be of relevance to project partners and the wider community. The projects are given in alphabetical order and are grouped into current and completed projects.

Current

Note: for some of these projects APS may have completed its work, but the project is still running.

Development of the XCRI-CAP (eXchanging Course Related Information - Course Advertising Profile) specification (2005 to date).
Development and maintenance of the XCRI Knowledge Base at http://www.xcri.co.uk/
XCRI Support Project (see XCRI Knowledge Base)
Critical Friend to a cluster in the JISC Relationship Management Programme
Xcri eXchange Platform (XXP)
HEAR Technical Specification
Assisting a consortium in the development of an interoperability specification for information about competences (the InteropAbility Project)
Open University course dissemination

Completed

Advanced Search Algorithm Protocol (ASAP)
Admissions Domain Mapping (ADoM)
Mapping a vendor product's data structures to XCRI for the University of Nottingham's Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD) as part of the CUMULUS project (CUMULUS)
Demonstrating Enhanced Learner Information for Admissions (DELIA)
Effective Feedback to Improve Fair Admissions (EFIFA) project
ePortfolios for Lifelong Learning (eP4LL)
Fair Admissions
Leading the development of the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) XML data set technical specification
ePortfolios in Successful HE Admissions (PortisHEad)
Co-authoring a scoping study for JISC Mechanisms for Assessing the Fairness & Effectiveness of Selection Processes in Admissions to HE
Open Course Collection and Aggregation Model (OCCAM)
Technical information management and demonstration work on Specifying an ePortfolio, a JISC reference model project led by the University of Nottingham.
Co-authoring a landscape study for JISC Landscape Study of Student Lifecycle Relationship Management (SRM)
Process modelling in courses validation and curriculum management systems for Manchester Metropolitan University, and an associated generic statement of stakeholder requirements for an academic courses database for JISC - "Supporting Responsive Curricula: Establishing a Single Point of Truth" Supporting Responsive Curricula (SRC).
xcri@MMU
XCRI Implementation Models (XIM)
Setting up and managing the eDelivery Programme as Programme Manager for UCAS (2003-2005).