]> http://labgroup.org.uk LabGroup Viewing last 15 news http://portal.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/news/Pages/SummerScientistWeekonUniversityyoutubechannel.aspx Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:15:25 +0100 http://portal.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/news/Pages/EducationintheWild.aspx Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:49:49 +0100 http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/6/1190 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:31:26 +0100 The European project ROLE was at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) last month in exotic Tunisia. Alexander Mikroyannidis from KMi presented a semantic architecture for Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). This work is about layering and integration of learning ontologies, which are modelling various aspects of the learning process and facilitating the production of recommendations to learners. Another ROLE partner, Maren Scheffel from Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, presented the latest work on contextualised attention metadata for studying learners' behaviour. This technology has been applied in ROLE for gathering usage data out of learning tools and services. http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/6/1189 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:15:00 +0100 Joe Corneli gave a demo of GravPad at WikiSym 2010 in Gdansk, Poland. GravPad uses the Firefox Greasemonkey extension to attach an Etherpad to every page on the web. This mashup of web-plus-Etherpad, together with a "real-time recent changes page", facilitates the discovery of interesting content and conversations. If you have Greasemonkey installed, you can try GravPad now! WikiSym's proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library - pay special attention to Best Paper Award winner Annalisa Pelizza's paper on "Opennes as an asset". You can also find some nice slides on WikiSym's wiki, including Piotr Konieczny's awesome presentation on "Teaching with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Wikis". http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/6/1188 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:17:00 +0100 At the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010) this year, Simon Buckingham Shum and the Hypermedia Discourse Team from KMi organized a workshop on Online Deliberation Emerging Tools. This invitational workshop brought together many of the leading researchers and practitioners in computer-supported dialogue, deliberation and argumentation - modes of discourse central to activities including social learning, collective sensemaking, debate analysis and participatory democracy. Drawing on experiences spanning business, mass media, education, government and many other public sectors, the workshop considered the state of the art in tools that are emerging from the labs, reflecting on the lessons that are being learnt around the effective usage and deployment of these tools. The workshop was chaired by Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi, Open U. UK) Workshop participants, in order of presentation: Tim van Gelder (Austhink Consulting, AUS) - bCisive Online & ShowCase Nikos Karacapilidis (U. Patras, GR) - CoPe_it! Anna De Liddo & Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi, Open U., UK) - Compendium/Cohere Mark Snaith & Chris Reed (U. Dundee, UK) - OVA & Arvina David Price (Debategraph, UK) - Debategraph Sanjay Modgil (U. Liverpool, UK) - Parmenides Ann Macintosh (U. Leeds, UK) and Tom Gordon (Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE) - Impact Project Mark Klein (MIT, USA) - Deliberatorium Rob Ennals (Intel Labs, USA) - DisputeFinder To know more about the workshop and for links to presentations and tools please visit the workshop website here below. As a following on to the workshop Simon Buckingham Shum also chaired a panel in the main OD2010 conference on Emerging Technologies for Online Deliberation. Within the panel Anna De Liddo presented Cohere as Web Annotation Tool for Collective Inquiry and Online Deliberationthe, and the new Social Semantic Network visualization function supported by Cohere (see links to the demo videos below). http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/6/1187 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:47:00 +0100 LUCERO (Linking University Content for Education and Research Online) is a new 1 year JISC-funded project at the Open University. Led by KMi, LUCERO (which means 'Bright Star' in Spanish) is a collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and the Open University Library, working in partnership with many other parts of the OU, in order to apply linked data technologies and principles to education and research practices. To realise this ambitious goal, LUCERO will have to create a new technical infrastructure to store, give access, manipulate and, of course, link data from several institutional repositories (such as Open Research Online, the library catalogue and staff databases). A major goal is to develop the practice and processes to create expose research and educational information as part of the Web of Data. Knowing which sources can be exposed under which conditions and at what cost is currently a problem faced by any organization wishing to follow the linked open data route. The goal of LUCERO is to generate reusable experience based on making linked University data happen at the OU. Moreover, LUCERO is not only about exposing data for others to use and explore. One of the major objectives of the project is to concretely demonstrate the benefits of linked data in a University environment, especially to researchers and students. The project works in direct collaboration with six research projects from the Faculty of Arts, which are producing data in various forms. Exposing this data and linking it to both institutional sources and external datasets should make such research results richer and more accessible. As part of the project, we will develop a set of applications showing how students and researchers can take benefit from such enhanced data, to explore the underlying information sources and possibly discover unexpected connections. For more information about the project go to the project blog, which will be updated regularly with the progress of the project. http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=383&Itemid=35 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:00:00 +0100 The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (Moscow) has launched its new portal at http://iite.unesco.org (http://iite.unesco.org). LKL's Professor Diana Laurillard has been appointed a member of the Governing... http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380&Itemid=35 Thu, 20 May 2010 18:07:00 +0100 A team lead by Professor Rose Luckin from the London Knowledge Lab is working as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration on the EPSRC-funded ‘Taking on the Teenagers' project. http://portal.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/news/Pages/studentwinsJudgesChoice.aspx Wed, 12 May 2010 12:26:48 +0100 http://portal.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/news/Pages/NewletterApril2010.aspx Wed, 12 May 2010 10:59:38 +0100 http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/6/1180 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:50:00 +0100 Last week saw SOA4All's second year review in Barcelona. Driven by the success of previous reviews, this time the evaluation focused on exploitation of project results which shows the high expectations the European Commission has of this project. As on previous occasions, KMi's involvement was crucial for yet another successful review. KMi's John Domingue and Carlos Pedrinaci presented the outstanding work of KMi's team composed of Pierre Grenon, Jacek Kopecky, Dave Lambert, Dong Liu and Maria Maleshkova. John, scientific director of the project, gave a seminal presentation on the main scientific contributions of SOA4All and introduced the main conclusions and predictions drawn by the project with regards to the Future Internet of Services. The presentation, which was very well received, led to one of the main recommendations from the reviewers which is that "SOA4All is one of the most advanced projects on services in Europe and should as such lead the Future Internet of Services". Thus, with renewed strength and motivation, the project enters the last of three years of research and development, in which it is expected to establish a key milestone in the evolution of services on the Web. http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=379&Itemid=35 Sun, 09 May 2010 22:21:00 +0100 LKL's Yishay Mor and Tim Neumann are adding the fifth E to the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative E4 Conference (http://www.e4conference.org/). And you can be a part of it! http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=378&Itemid=85 Thu, 06 May 2010 10:15:00 +0100 The LKL's new MSc in Learning Technologies is now open for enrolments. Further information (http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/courses/lt/) http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=377&Itemid=35 Thu, 06 May 2010 10:11:00 +0100 Improving Mathematics at Work: The Need for Techno-Mathematical Literacies by Celia Hoyles, Richard Noss, Phillip Kent, and Arthur Bakker is now available from Routledge. http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=376&Itemid=35 Mon, 03 May 2010 22:41:00 +0100 A new MSc in Learning Technologies has been lauched by LKL staff, with Programme Directors Professor Diana Laurillard and Professor Alex Poulovassilis. This Masters programme is distinctive in its twin...