JISC

Links

Horus Project Web Site 

Horus CETIS Development Page 

Distributed eLearning - eTools Page

Software Description

The primary deliverable on this project is a set of open source services that facilitate learner-centred, work-based education.  Specifically, these services will provide the capability to:

• Gather feedback about a learner’s competencies
• Discover relevant learning events
• Reflect on previous learning experiences
• Quality assure the educational experience by analysing and disseminating the feedback to teachers and educational analysts.

This set of services will then form part of two educational demonstrators that will be used for validation. 

Aims and Objectives

Aims

1. Develop, and make available to the FE/HE sector, open source services that support high quality, work-based learning within communities of learning and practice.
2. Extend the functionality of iSUS to other types of learner-centred education.
3. Develop and evaluate tools and procedures to quality assure learning and teaching using feedback principles.

Objectives

1. Develop and make available reusable, open-source, application services that:
   • Make learners and teachers more aware of curriculum goals.
   • Gather, analyse and disseminate feedback relating to work based placements and other learner-centred activities.
2. Develop standard service interfaces for these innovative application services.
3. Integrate the developed services in the JISC technical framework.
4. Develop a set of use cases in learner centred education, to help prospective users apply the services.
5. Demonstrate how these services support two e-learning scenarios.
6. Disseminate the product to the JISC community by expanding the existing community of developers and users.