- Date:
- 2005-2006
- Date:
- 2006-2007
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Knowledge Technologies, Reusable Learning Objects
- Funding:
- JISC (Capital Tools and Repositories, Tools and Innovations)
Primary investigator
- hcd
Secondary investigators
- David Millard
- Gary Wills
- Les Carr
- Yvonne Howard
- cs
- Kate Dickens, eLanguages,School of Modern Languages
- Julie Watson, eLanguages, School of Modern Languages
- Ann Jeffery, eLanguages,School of Modern Languages
Partner
- eLanuages, School of Modern Languages, University of Southampton
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Web and Internet Science
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2007-2007
- Themes:
- Assessment, ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- JISC
The e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment (FREMA) project has developed two Service Usage Models (SUMs). Summative On-line Assessment has many existing tools within this space, while Peer Review is a less well supported area. A distinction may be made between Peer Review, the marking of a studentââ¬â¢s work by their peers, and Peer Assessment, the marking of collaborative group work by a tutor (which may be modified by peer reflection). Peer Review is an important tool for giving feedback to large student cohorts when tutor time is limited, and is also an important learning activity in its own right. This project will undertake the development of an initial set of services from the Peer Review FREMA usecase, providing lightweight REST services, which may be reused within other group-oriented SUMs, to support the resource submission and distribution phases of Peer Review.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2007-2007
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Learning Technologies
- Funding:
- JISC
The project will produce an E-Framework toolkit that enables users to create course evaluation applications. Within UK Higher and Further Education, course evaluation is a well-defined component of teaching and learning, and after the domains of ââ¬ËLearning Designââ¬â¢ and of ââ¬ËAssessmentââ¬â¢ is probably the next most important. The toolkit will focus upon the authoring of evaluation questionnaires, their use by students, and the authoring of course reports by tutors based upon questionnaire answers.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Web and Internet Science
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2007-2010
- Themes:
- Knowledge Technologies, Semantic Web
- Funding:
- DTI
The 3 CLIX project is a three year project. The partners are Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC), Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSR), and the University of Southampton. The project description from the DTI is:
ââ¬ÅThe ability for the knowledge worker to rapidly search and access information within the system like design performance data forms one of the key user requirements of a virtual design system. A measure of the usability of this type of system is the number of mouse clicks an engineer needs to perform in order to access the information he requires. We propose to investigate the functional requirements of an information/knowledge and process management system to enable the user to access information within 3 mouse clicks from search or request initiation to information retrieval, by technology development aimed at enhancing existing tools and techniques. These techniques will demonstrated by deployment on the Application Case Studies scenarios providing realistic feedback to guide further development.ââ¬?
Primary investigators
Partners
- Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC),
- Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSR),
- School of Engineering Science
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2006-
- Theme:
- Computer Science Education
- Funding:
- HEA-ICS
A short project to work in collaboration with Universities in the South of England to identify current issues in Information and Computer Science Education. The project is funded by the HEA subject centre in Information and Computer Science (HEA-ICS). It is designed to enable further collaborative working between academics across the South of England.
Primary investigator
- saw
Associated research group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Date:
- 2006-2009
- Themes:
- Semantic Web, Social Network Analysis, Web Science, Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- EU (EU-IST-2006-034721)
This research project is located at the interface of several fields, such as computer science, complex systems science, cognitive science, psycholinguistics and information architecture, and is likely to feed back into the design of better applications. The project will contribute to Semiotic Dynamics, a new field that studies how semiotic relations can originate, spread, and evolve over time in populations, by combining recent advances in linguistics and cognitive science with methodological and theoretical tools from complex systems and computer science.
The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction in a variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making available large amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for example, collaborative tagging systems) and these data may become the foundantion of a true scientific investigation about the behavior of human agents on the Web and the dynamics of information in online communities.
Primary investigators
- Nigel Richard Shadbolt
- ha
- kmo
Secondary investigator
- mns2
Partners
- La Sapienza University - Rome
- Sony - Paris
- University of Kassel - Germany
- University of Koblenz - Germany
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2006-2009
- Themes:
- Assessment, Mobile Learning
- Funding:
- JISC
Students of the health care professions generally undertake a number of clinical placements during their training. Whilst they are in practice a clinical practitioner will assess the studentââ¬â¢s competence against a set of learning outcomes and give ongoing feedback to the student. Due to the workload of the supervising practitioner, the assessment processes can be fragile, which in turn can impinge on the studentsââ¬â¢ learning. At the same time students in practice are away from their usual learning environment, and it can be difficult for them to access their learning resources at the time that they discover the need. The principle, upon which this project is based, is that practice based learning and in particular the mentoring process, would be improved if the student and mentor had access to tools which allowed on the spot on-line entry of results of assessments, such that feedback would be immediate, and thus followup actions could be decided instantly.
This project aims to provide a mobile learning toolkit to support practice based learning, mentoring and assessment. This toolkit will provide an interface so that course leader can specify, in a flexible manner, the learning outcomes to be met, the method of assessment (including the form of the result, how it will be recorded, and by whom), the timing of the assessment(s) and the feedback to be given in response to the results, suitable learning resources to support these learning outcomes, and the actions to be taken when assessments are not completed in a timely manner. Such a toolkit could be used on a variety of programmes, both HE and FE, and in clinical and non-clinical contexts, where work place assessment is an integral part of the course.
The toolkit will enable deployment of the mentorââ¬â¢s assessment interface on a number of platforms, ranging from PCââ¬â¢s through to PDAs and Smartphones and will also provide tools such as RSS feeds to simplify distribution of the learning resources. The project will contribute to the JISC community by adding mobile assessment tools to the E-framework.
The consortium is a well-connected group. The Computer Scientists who will provide the toolkit have previously worked together within the JISC Reference Model projects. Within both TVU and Southampton the Computer Scientists have previously worked with their Nursing and Healthcare departments. Southampton and TVU both have recently been placed in the same NHS area, and the Bournemouth and Poole College is an established FE partner for Southampton University. The following scenario, taken from Nursing, illustrates the problems and the need for such a toolkit.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigators
- Yvonne Howard
- pz2g12
Partners
- School of Nursing and Midwifery UoS
- Thames Valley University
- Bournemouth and Poole College
Associated research groups
- Web and Internet Science
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2006-2006
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Assessment
- Funding:
- JISC
The R2Q2 aims to produce a complete engine to render and respond to all QTIv2 question types. The engine will be wrapped in a Web service so that it can integrate easily into the JISC e-Framework.
The specific objectives are to:
- Produce a Web service that will render and respond to all QTIv2 question types as defined by the templates given in the specification.
- Report on the design and implementation
- Publish the Web Service Description (WSDL and plain English) and Code
Primary investigators
Partner
- University of Hull
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2006-2009
- Themes:
- Dependable Systems, e-Science, Grid and Distributed Computing
- Funding:
- European Commission (INFSO-RI-031844)
OMII-Europe is an EU project which has been established to source key software components for Grid applications and to ensure that these components can interoperate across heterogeneous Grid middleware platforms.
OMII-Europe is an Open Systems project that endorses both the use of open standards and open source. OMII-Europe has chosen particular open standards for the Grid that it believes are essential to interoperability across global resources.
The OMII-Europe vision is
to harvest open-source, Web-Services-based, Grid software components from across Europe and to supply these Grid services in a form that will enable them to interoperate across the platforms: gLite, UNICORE and Globus.
The emphasis is on the re-engineering of software components rather than on the development of new technology. OMII-Europe will develop a repository of quality-assured Grid services running on these existing major Grid infrastructures. The drivers for OMII-Europe are interoperability, quality-assurance and establishing itself as an impartial broker, giving advice on heterogeneous Grid solutions.
Primary investigator
- ph
Partners
- Eight European Partners
- Four USA Partners
- Four Chinese Partners
Associated research group
- Dependable Systems & Software Engineering