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The Eurogene project
This event took place on Wednesday 04 March 2009 at 11:30

 
Dr Zdenek Zdrahal KMi, The Open University

The current results of the Eurogene project will be presented. The project makes use of semantic technologies to describe learning resources in human genetics through metadata annotation using appropriate domain ontologies. Annotated educational resources are organised according to different learning strategies and criteria. The project aims at supporting learners in 9 European languages.

 
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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.