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LTRI news - September to December 2000
September 2000 Institute presentation at EC Multimedia Content and Tools event, Luxembourg, 25/9/2000 John Cook was invited by the European Commission to give a presentation at the Open House event for Key Action 3, Multimedia Content and Tools, which is part of the Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The event gave participants first hand knowledge of developments in this area. John gave a presentation on 'The Role of the Internet in Education and Training: Medium to Long-Term Research Issues'. Download PowerPoint presentation or for more detail on the event and EC research funding opportunities in this area go to: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/events.htm ALT-C 2000, UMIST, 11-13 September Presentations given at ALT-C 2000 the conference for the Association of Learning Technology http://www.umist.ac.uk/alt-c2000
November 2000 Institute launch
December 2000 Completion of the ARTyFACTS project
ICS Subject Centre Workshops
Paper presentation in New Zealand, at IWALT, 4-6 December
Presentation on Problem-based Learning, Singapore, 4-7 December
Consultancy for the European Commission John Cook undertook more consultancy work for the European Commission in Brussels. In March/April this year he acted as an expert evaluator for the Multimedia Content and Tools panel. This time he sat on a panel which reviewed annual project reports for Education and Training. Last updated 15 March, 2012 |
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The
Learning Technology Research Institute was officially launched by Dick
Palmer, Head of ICT strategy at the DfEE, on 22nd November. The university
Vice-Chancellor Brian Roper introduced the event, and Institute Director
Tom Boyle gave his inaugural Professorial Lecture, entitled 'Learning
Technology: Vision and Reality'. At the reception afterwards, guests were
treated to multimedia demonstrations of recent work produced by Institute
staff. 
This
project, funded by a small grant from the Arts and Humanities Research
Board, has explored different ways of re-exhibiting art objects virtually.
A first prototype of the ARTyFACTS Learning Environment has been developed,
from the full system specification. The project has been a collaboration
between Institute staff in the School of Informatics and Multimedia Technology,
two research students, and a member of staff from the School of Architecture.
We are currently developing plans for the extension of the project, and
seeking further funding to support this work. 
The
LTRI hosted two very interesting workshops on behalf of the LTSN National
Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences on 30 November and
1 December. At the Reusability workshop participants discussed
pedagogical issues and potential developmental models to assist with the
production of re-usable learning materials. The workshop was led by: Lachlan
MacKinnon and Keith Brown, CATALIST Research Group, Heriot-Watt University;
Patrick McAndrew, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University
and Tom Boyle, Learning Technology Research Institute, University of North
London.
John
Cook gave a paper at IWALT, the International Workshop on Advanced Learning
Technologies in New Zealand. The paper is entitled 'Designing web-based
adaptive support for debate with dialogue modeling' and will appear in
proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. For more information
see the conference web site: 
Peter
Oriogun presented a paper entitled “Towards making learning agents think
of their roles in the learning process through a problem-based learning
grid”. The presentation was at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on
Problem-Based Learning, Singapore, 4-7 December 2000. For more information
about the conference go to: