JISC

Better Communications with Students?

OnlyConnect will demonstrate a service-oriented approach to communicating with students via their preferred channels, showing the journey of a message from university enterprise system to student.

REACh will show how use of SMS and RSS can improve the student experience. Both provide insight into the challenges of centralizing enterprise-student communications.

Chris Frost, University of Bolton; Professor Mark Stubbs, Manchester Metropolitan University

Customer Relationship Management: Self-analysis Framework

This open source CRM Self-analysis Framework provides a range of insights and tools designed to enable educational institutions to think through their people, process and technology issues before, during or after a BCE-orientated CRM implementation. It includes guidance on analysing and mapping needs, business processes, customer value and change readiness.

Matthew Donaghy, University of Nottingham

Practical Collaborative Tools for Education, Research and Administration (APT STAIRS)

The APT STAIRS project has utilised a simple, step-by-step model to introduce appropriate and practical technologies to students, teachers, administrators and researchers. The model approach taken was key to the project’s success, and we will be describing this primarily in our demo as it has many benefits for the community at large.

Sarah Sherman, Bloomsbury College and Nick Short, Royal Veterinary College

Enhancing Quality through Technology?

Quali-R will show how quality assurance processes have become more transparent through use of systems to manage and syndicate actionable items extracted from narrative documents. 

Developing Intelligent Validation Systems (DIVAS) will demonstrate a central repository for validation documents supported by a NING Community of Practice with members from all areas of the university.

Sue Lee, Staffordshire University; Miles Metcalfe, Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication

Integrated access to timetabling information for learners (Katapila)

Demonstration of the KATAPILA electronic timetabling system developed to collect, store, analyse and present scheduling information for classes, teachers, rooms and other resources related to the curriculum. The session is intended for anyone working in FE/HE who is interested in practical solutions to timetabling and resource scheduling.

David Robinson, Kingston College

Disabled Learners’ Experiences of e-learning – LexDis

LexDis has pulled together handy hints and tips on technologies that make e-learning easier (known as Assistive Technologies). We will be demonstrating some of the technology-based strategies developed by students to overcome difficulties involving the use of online learning and teaching resources and address issues to ensure ease of access for all learners.

EA Draffan, University of Southampton

Lightweight content depositing (SWORD)

SWORD is a lightweight protocol for depositing content from one location to another, producing demonstration deposit interfaces in EPrints, Fedora, DSpace and IntraLibrary, and a number of clients in desktop, command-line and web form. Some new tools which we will be demonstrating include a Microsoft OfficeSWORD tool, a Facebook application and a SWORD Widget.

Adrian Stevenson, UKOLN

Web-based tool for easier access to multi-media (MACFoB)

MACFOB’s web-based multimedia annotation tool (Synote) makes multimedia web resources easier to access, search, manage, and exploit. We will be demonstrating the tool’s benefits for students, teachers and others, through its development and deployment of technologies that support the creation of synchronised notes, bookmarks, tags, images and text captions.

Shakeel Khoja, University of Southampton

The AWESOME Dissertation Environment (ADE)

ADE is a dynamic interactive learning environment for use by undergraduate and taught postgraduate students and their supervisors. Novel aspects which we will be demonstrating are: Pedagogy-led design with active involvement of users in shaping the environment. Holistic support throughout all stages of dissertation writing. Use of semantics to facilitate the development of an academic writing community

Rebecca O’Rourke & Dr Lydia Lau, University of Leeds

Two virtual research environments for the arts and humanities (VERA and SDM)

We will demonstrate the VRE developed by the Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA) project. The Study of Documents and Manuscripts (SDM) VRE will then link to VERA and the two projects will show how seamless access can be provided to a rich range of research data and tools by treating documents as artefacts with an original archaeological or physical context.

Hugo Mills, University of Reading and John Pybus, University of Oxford

Shibboleth Access to Resources on the NGS (SARoNGS)

The NGS facilitates access to a wide range of e-Infrastructure within the UK. We will demonstrate how the SARoNGS project is enabling users to gain access to the NGS with their own institutional ID via the Access Management Federation and also how the NGS is using PERMIS technology from the VPMan project to enable resource providers and projects to control access to individual services within their resource.

Andrew Richards, STFC

Building portals for computational chemistry (Rapid)

Rapid is a unique way of quickly designing and delivering portal interfaces to applications that require grid or high performance computing. We will demonstrate how this has been used as part of the ENGAGE initiative in the context of computational chemistry.

Dr Jano van Hemert, University of Edinburgh