XCRI at West Cheshire College
West Cheshire College is a vocational college, with a range of courses with three main campuses located in Chester, Ellesmere Port and Capenhurst. It comprises about 2000 full time students and 20,000 part time students. The aim of the project was the generation of XCRI within the FE sector and to export the course information to an appropriate web service within the FE sector. The project employed the software company Phosphorix to publish the information from the college database and the Unit e-course information system in to a single XCRI catalogue. The student information was administered within the College Information System (CIS) and the course advertising was managed by the Marketing department. The Content Management System (CMS) was in charge of advertising the leaflet information to the external people. The Learning Aims Database (LAD, oracle Database), collected the necessary data such as the level of course and the awarding body. A single view of this data was then created by liaising with other stakeholders and bringing together the data from three different data sources. Course Exchange was used to generate the XCRI-CAP xml file combining the brochure information and the course presentation details was then shared with the SOLVS project.
The project faced some organisational and technical issues like
- Absence of awarding body information in college database
- Compliance issues with the creation of leaflet information and linking course presentation to the leaflet.
It has been proved that XCRI has raised awareness and through this project the institution is now in a position to act as an advisor on XCRI and the flexibility of the XCRI schemas to the colleges and schools in Cheshire and Warrington. The project considers that XCRI has paved way to wider access to further FE programmes within Cheshire and Warrington Lifelong Learning Network.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:23 am
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