JISC

Project name

Lead partner

Description

ELF mapping

Technologies

Standards

Assessment Tools in Mathematics

Imperial College London

This project will evaluate, pilot and develop further the Serving Mathematics tool. The following elements will be built in:

• an authoring tool for computer-aided assessment in Maths
• MathQTI specifications and XML Schema for mathematical question test items
• a rendering and assessment tool for mathematical question tests marked up in MathQTI

Assessment

MathQTI

XML Schema for mathematical question test items

DELTA 2

University of Essex

The DELTA service (for submitting, searching for and retrieving distributed pedagogical resources) will be enhanced by making it able to cope with multiple ontologies (e.g. subject ontologies), different resource types, and to utilise meta data harvesting to make it more efficient.

Federated Search

Horus-FP

University of Manchester

The project will develop a beta version of a Horus-based VMLE to support the Foundation Programme, and implement Horus-FP in three sites and evaluate its potential usefulness to learners.

VLE

LMS

SWEET.Net

XML/HTML

Interactive Logbook 2

University of Birmingham

The Interactive Logbook is an open source Personal Learning Environment available both on Windows PC and mobile JAVA platforms. This project will:

• develop further plug-ins to meet the needs of diverse user groups
• extend the interoperability of the IL and test this against a number of other tools, particularly PLEs, ePDPs and ePortfolios
• pilot the IL’s use amongst these groups and where interoperability can be tested
• evaluate the usability and pedagogical value of the product

Personal development e-Portfolio

IMS LIP

XML

InterLoc

London Metropolitan University

This project will further develop, pilot test and pedagogically evaluate the AcademicTalk tool that mediates interaction as dialogue games that scaffold critical discussion and reasoned dialogue in education.

Personal Development

OpenMentor 2

The Open University

This project will further develop the OpenMentor tool which assists tutors through analysing and then providing reflective comments on their assessment and feedback of student assignments and coursework.

Assessment

PDP

MyWorld

Oxford Brookes University

Petal is a web-based information management tool, which allows users and guests the opportunity to access and share e-Portfolio records and other documents. The tool will be further developed to include a WS-based off-line tool for mobile computing devices, and a threaded discussion tool as a replacement for the OSPI-derived 'comment' function.

ePortfolio

ASAP 2

Kingston University

This project will extend the Automatic System for the Assessment of Programming (ASAP) which has produced a pilot implementation of an open-source service-oriented programming assessment system. 

The two main components to this tender are:

1. Developing the Pilot Software (ASAP) to a Production Stage [Assessment Web Service + Blackboard User Agent]
2. Developing Additional Tools + Services to a Pilot Stage [User Agent Tools and Assessment Manager]

Assessment

Shell-Fish 2

Plymouth University

Shell-fish is a tool that supports learners by providing an online facility to obtain feedback, a development plan and a record of progress related to that feedback. The system will be extended by producing an administration interface, user forum/community, community and layout and functionality suggestions obtained from pilots and user tests.

Assessment, PDP/ePortfolio and Collaboration & Discussion

PHP5.0

MySQL

UK LEAP

IMS LIP

TRICS 2

Manchester Metropolitan University

This project will extend an existing open standards tool (OS-TRICS) in preparation for piloting within MMU and other institutions. The tool provides interactive cases via a web interface that allows students to investigate an organisation by: interviewing staff, viewing documents such as procedures and minutes, and by accessing informal staff communication.

HTML

Macromedia Flash

SOAP

WSDL

V Map 2

Goldsmiths College, University of London

This project sets out to further develop the V-MAP e-Portfolio software tool, which enables the creation, uploading, updating and presentation of e‑Portfolios.

e-Portfolio

IMS e-Portfolio 1.0 specification,

Sun Java J2SE 1.5.0,

XML 1.0 Third Edition,

SOAP 1.2

WCKER 2

University of Oxford

This project will test and advance the alpha version of the WCKER tool by running a number of pilot implementations in HE and FE institutions to evaluate the pedagogical value, effectiveness and future development requirements of the tool, and to use the results of the user trials and pedagogical evaluation to develop a beta version of the WCKER tool. The tool allows for the creation of bespoke wizards which define the overall structure or format of a suite or programme of courses.

VLEs,

content repository

Java

XML

IMS Meta-data within IMS 1.2.2

SCORM Content Packaging 1.1.3

Java 1.4.2

XML 1.0