Peter Scott's profile document
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Peter Scott
Peter Scott
Peter
Scott
KMi Director
Professor Peter Scott is the Director of the Knowledge Media Institute of the UK's Open University. KMI is a Research and Development Unit, which explores the future of learning. He has a BA & PhD in Psychology. Before joining the Open University in 1995, he taught Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield, with a textbook in each of these subjects. From 2007-10 he was elected founding President of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning.
From 2008-12 Peter was the coordinator of STELLAR, the EU’s 7th Framework Network of Excellence in TEL. Peter's research group in the institute, prototypes the application of new technologies and media to learning.
Peter’s current research interests range widely across knowledge and media research. Three key threads are: telepresence; streaming media systems; and ubiquity.
In June 2008 he coordinated the launch of The Open University in iTunes U, which passed 60 Million international downloads in January 2013. Peter is currently musing on how to exceed that milestone...
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Peter Scott's participation in KMi Planet
KMi Planet
KMi Planet
Online Newspaper
KMi Planet is an online newspaper managed entirely by intelligent agent software. The software undertakes the mundane tasks of alerting readers, soliciting, gathering, and formatting stories, integrating these tasks in a compelling fashion with minimal overheads for the in-house reporters and maximal benefit for readers. KMi Planet has been used successfully for a number of years and now contains 100+ stories. A number of customised versions are now running in corporate and educational enviroments.
Peter Scott's participation in Stadium
Stadium
Stadium
1995-10-01
Webcasting large-scale live events and on-demand-replays
KMi Stadium is the generic label for a suite of webcasting activities and software tools whose goal is to stage large-scale live events and on-demand-replays, while giving remote participants anywhere on the Internet a sense of 'being there'. It can be used for anything from a management seminar to a public lecture and has been successfully used for the Open University's On the Record Web-Casts. Its use in education is shown by its deployment for IET's Open and Distance Learning courses and Open University Business School seminars.
Peter Scott's participation in FlashMeeting Technology
FlashMeeting Technology
FlashMeeting Technology
2003-07-04
The lightest possible video-conferencing software application
Hook-up your web cam, plug in your microphone, go to a web page ...
and the Centre for New Media's FM Technology you to make an instant meeting - any time, any place, any platform! FM technology comes from the prize-winning FlashMeeing Project. It provides a host of features packed into a small applet direct in a web page. As the applet is implemented in using Adobe's Flash, the most widely available and most compatible of browser plugins, it is incredibly lightweight, efficient, good looking, and you probably will not have to download anything extra at all for it to work!
Peter Scott's participation in The Virtual Corporate University
The Virtual Corporate University
The Virtual Corporate University
2002-11-15
Streaming media solution to the corporate university sector
The Virtual Corporate University is a rapid prototype of a streaming media solution to the basic requirements of the emerging corporate university sector. Corporate clients expect simple media on demand delivery of materials to their students desktops in a very tightly managed system that is tuned to their corporations? working practices. In this prototype we explore how Open Learning materials and practices could be combined with commercial student management facilities to suit these corporate requirements.
Peter Scott's participation in The Virtual Student Advisor
The Virtual Student Advisor
The Virtual Student Advisor
2003-03-01
On-line multimedia support for Open Learning
Providing on line advice and guidance to our students involves bringing together a wide range of synchronous and asynchronous materials. In this project we have explored a range of visions of how we might provide asynchronous support to our students via appropriately streamed media. The progress of these experiments have lead the university to fund a New Technology for Student Support service which will use this work to support OU web based students.
Peter Scott's participation in AEC
AEC
AEC
2000-10-01
Assisted Electronic Communications in Health
The project is aimed at the application of media and knowledge technologies in a heath care context. The project was funded by the UK Department of Health, under the Information and Communications Technologies Research Initiative.
Peter Scott's participation in citischool
citischool
citischool
2001-06-01
2004-05-31
Where young people are citizens and citizens are teachers
CitiSchool (The Citizens' School) is an exciting new initiative being pioneered in the UK by Milton Keynes, to support disaffected young people in maintaining their interest in learning, and gaining qualifications. Adapted for the UK from a proven model in the US, some of the city's largest employers (including The Open University, BT, The British Army, and Abbey National) have joined forces to design and deliver Key Skills training to young people truanting or excluded from school, but who nonetheless have demonstrated their desire to learn. Citischool starts in September 2001, in collaboration with the major educational providers and agencies in Milton Keynes.<BR>
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The Knowledge Media Institute is supporting Citischool by providing the technical infrastructure to manage this "school without walls". Students, mentors, work placement employers, administrators and tutors must communicate and coordinate work across the city, posing unique challenges for traditional systems. This infrastructure is absolutely critical to the project's success, and KMi is adapting and extending in-house Web-based technologies (originally developed for the Millennium funded CLUTCH Project) to help administer Citischool over the Internet.
Peter Scott's participation in Games
Games
Games
2002-10-22
Development of educational games
A number of our projects have required us to develop computer games. Either as a stimulating and entertaining way for the student to learn about a chosen subject, or as an interactive 'jewel' to keep a user interested in a website.
Peter Scott's participation in Hexagon
Hexagon
Hexagon
2003-10-16
The power of 'presence' brought to your browser
Keep in touch with your colleagues wherever you are in the world. Not only can you see their present 'state-of-being', or use the inbuilt text chat, as with many other types of software, but you can actually see them working at their desk with regularly updating thumbnail images. And when you need a quick 'word' you can 'voice' chat with them!
Peter Scott's participation in Interacting in A Virtual Gallery
Interacting in A Virtual Gallery
Interacting in A Virtual Gallery
2002-04-04
Adding interactivity to virtual reality movies
There's nothing new about virtual reality, but recently considerable advances have been made in how interactive it can be. Using the latest version of Apple's QuickTime virtual reality authoring, combined with advanced digital photography and image editing, CNM have developed a fully interactive approach to virtual environments, with a customised interface that can link to Internet resources.
Peter Scott's participation in Learning Disability History
Learning Disability History
Learning Disability History
2002-12-11
Enabling people to share experiences
Each year the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University organises a conference where people with learning difficulties, supporters, practitioners and academics share their life history experiences about a common theme.
It's been a common concern at these meetings that only a limited number of people can take part. In this short project, we looked at how we would build a record of such a conference within the limits of current technology. The year is 2001 and the theme "resistance".
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Peter Scott's participation in webCEF
webCEF
webCEF
2006-10-01
2009-09-30
Language learning assessment to the Common European Framework
KMi joined the webCEF project on language learning assessments, based on the Common European Framework of Reference. We developed an online tool which helps:
WebCEF allows:
- language learners to let their samples be assessed by teachers all over Europe
- language teachers the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across Europe and to improve their skills in the use of the CEF scales
- language researchers the access to a vast database of samples and assessments
The WebCEF project runs until September 2009 and is funded under the Socrates - Minerva programme of the European Commission.
Peter Scott's participation in Phone the Web
Phone the Web
Phone the Web
2002-08-22
The window through which users will access information from networks is widening
Advances in speech recognition, natural language interfaces and software assistants will mean that the way we interact with information and each other over the network will soon be very different too. The range of services available on the Internet could soon be available wherever you are, whenever you need it.<BR>
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The popularity of text messaging, mobiles and email shows that people-to-people services are the ones that really catch the popular imagination. With this opening window, not just individuals, but groups, clubs, organisations and communities can keep in touch easily. The range of applications for these technologies will link more people and communities than was previously possible using only computer terminals.
Peter Scott's participation in ROSTRA
ROSTRA
ROSTRA
2001-04-01
Technologies for Intelligent News Agency
ROSTRA is a web-based news and content management tool written in PHP. Through the use of templates, it can be customised to fit into existing website designs, or act as a stand-alone website. Article submission is via a simple web form and can be accompanied by a wide variety of media including still images, movies (QuickTime, Windows Media, or FlashBlog), Word and Excel documents and PDF files. Images are resized automatically on the server to save bandwidth. Templates have been created so that ROSTRA can present material in blog formats and/for webcasting. All content is categorised and is fully searcheable. Posting can be done by authorised users or by guests, in which case the system supports message moderation by email. email digests of postings can be created automatically and stories can have permalinks. Certain templates allow authorised users to comment on postings. ROSTRA supports a heirarchical structure allowing sub-ROSTRA to feed into a master ROSTRA. In 2004, ROSTRA was adopted (as 'Making The News') for hundreds of schools across England by the East of England Broadband Consortium.
Peter Scott's participation in SportsCoach
SportsCoach
SportsCoach
2000-09-01
New Media in Sport
This prototype shows how to bring the very best of sports coaching, help, and tips to the internet. The site is divided into a number of sections. The coaching section has animated tips and techniques for many different sports. The forum provides for sport discussion, and an events diary allows local teams to advertise their events. Teachers should find the site very useful for planning classes.
Peter Scott's participation in Station X
Station X
Station X
2001-09-01
The CNM input to Bletchley Park
This is part of a CNM outreach initiative which highlights the local heritage site of Bletchley Park which was the WWII location of the codebreaking section called Station X. This project has focused on a reworking on their website in conjunction with the release of the film ENIGMA, and the development of some interesting code related games
We are also exploring the creation of accessible resources for schools that use Codes and Hacking in National Curriculum Exemplars.
Peter Scott's participation in VDC
VDC
VDC
2001-09-19
The Virtual Degree Ceremony
In this project we are exploring how to use technology to appropriately support a strongly social type of event - the celebration of the award of degrees to students in a virtual format. Our second worldwide virtual degree ceremony was webcast live on April 18th 2001. The live ceremony included chat, slides and animations as well as audio and video from the Berrill Lecture Theatre in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. Apart from staff on stage, the auditorium itself was entirely empty during the presentation - as all the audience were remote!
In addition to the UK based participants, students attended from as far away as New Zealand, Brazil, Denmark and the USA. In this ceremony, students graduated at home whilst baby-sitting, in the office with colleagues and a glass of champagne, and even with a cappuccino in a local cyber-cafe. A student in New Zealand joked that it was so early/late that he was graduating in his pyjamas!
Peter Scott's participation in XO
XO
XO
2002-07-19
The automatic presentation creator
The playback engine XO Stage and its companion editing tools XO Editor and XO ButtonEd make the creation and viewing of multimedia presentations a breeze. It uses a combination of Apple QuickTime and Macromedia Flash to provide an easy way to create professional looking presentations.
Peter Scott's participation in XO Backlot
XO Backlot
XO Backlot
2003-02-26
The Stadium Backlot system facilitates the management and maintenance of both live web casts and rep
The KMi Stadium project has supported a vast range of educational webcasting experiments, both within the Open University and for external clients. The logistics of managing such events, from a web based access point of view, has led to the development of the Stadium Backlot System.
Peter Scott's participation in Xtreme Webcasting
Xtreme Webcasting
Xtreme Webcasting
2002-08-09
Taking webcasting to the xtreme
A combination of technologies can allow people all over the world to witness extrordinary events.
The Matterhorn, August 2002. A mountaineer takes a leading-edge mobile phone on his ascent of the famous Swiss landmark and sends images and voice messages to the KMi lab in Milton Keynes, UK. Using Macromedia's FlashCom technologies provided "out of the box" in the latest version of Flash MX we have assembled a dynamic, multimedia website for this event. Viewers from around the globe can tune in to the event and even interact via a text chat facility.
Everest, May 2006. The same mountaineer makes a transmission via satellite phone from the summit of Everest - made available in seconds to his many friends, relatives and followers around the world - as part of his challenge to conquor the highest mountain on each of the seven continents of the world.
Spain, August 2007. Students on the OU second level course L204 used our technology for less extreme podcasting, posting images and recordings as they explored the historic town of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. The website was built using the same technology we had developed for the 7 Summits website.
Peter Scott's participation in Prolearn
Prolearn
Prolearn
2004-01-01
2007-12-31
Network of Excellence in Professional E Learning
This work aims to expand professional learners engagement with the best of European Interactive Media research. Corporate training still needs effective competence mapping and performance evaluation tools to support business learners. Indeed, corporate clients actually need the same access as all learners to an ideal portal learning system: ie. that will offer them a tracked experience with a set of 10 Euro learning modules, complete with credits and real interaction with peers, tutors and content; anywhere, anytime. This workpackage doesnt promise to solve that persistent problem on it own - but we do aim to show how interactive media research in Europe can help us in that direction.
Peter Scott's participation in Seen and Heard
Seen and Heard
Seen and Heard
2004-09-02
On line video conferencing for deaf kids
This project on the appropriate use of peer to peer video for hearing impared children is now running. Staff and pupils will be able to access, add to and share resources as well as communicate via a variety of means: Flash video (via the Internet), video conferencing and webcasting.
Partners include: the Northern Grid for Learning (working with Tyne Tees Television Deaf Sign Unit, Marden CLC Deaf Unit, The Discovery Museum), The Open University, The Deaf Association, and E2BN schools. interaction.
Peter Scott's participation in Making the News
Making the News
Making the News
2004-01-01
Syndicating School News
This is a project based on the KMi Rostra technologies. The Making the News website is a 'one stop shop' for Primary and Secondary Broadband schools in the UK, where students and teachers can access news, activities and resources. They can create their own news, register, become a roving reporter and produce informative, groundbreaking news stories. Stories judged to be of a high standard are shared automaticlly with other schools in the region and, via RSS, published on the national Making the News website.
Peter Scott's participation in ELeGI
ELeGI
ELeGI
2004-02-01
2008-01-31
European Learning Grid Infrastructure
The European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) project has the ambitious goal to develop software technologies for effective human learning. With the ELeGI project we will promote and support a learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information.
We have chosen a synergic approach, sometimes called human centred design, to replace the classical, applicative approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual Communities: experimental research concepts integrating new powerful developments of services in the Semantic GRID, the leading edge of currently available and future ICT technologies, with highly innovative and powerfully significant scenarios of human learning.
Peter Scott's participation in RFID
RFID
RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
An RFID 'tag' is a small object of varying size and shape capable of storing data, that is usually either attached to something, or 'positioned' at a location. The data can be read when the antenna a tag contains, receives radio-frequencies from a nearby transceiver.
CNM is looking into ways RFID technologies can be deployed in a learning environment. The project page contains an example of a simple but highly customizable educational based 'mobile' game.
Peter Scott's participation in FlashVlog
FlashVlog
FlashVlog
2005-10-01
The quick and easy way to create instant video blogs
With a web cam and computer you can be creating video blogs almost instantly! You can record and edit streaming video that is available to a web audience within seconds.
FlashVlogs are recorded and edited in the FlashVlog Editor and the results are watched using a separate FlashVlog Viewer. Both applets simply run in a standard web page using the popular Flash plug-in.
Peter Scott's participation in Podcasting
Podcasting
Podcasting
2006-01-17
A short introduction to podcasting
The word 'podcasting' is a combination of the words 'broadcasting' and 'iPod'. Podcasting is a means by which audio and video programs can be distributed via the internet by allowing users to subscribe to 'feeds'. These feeds contain details and descriptions of the programs, which are logically displayed for the user, and provide an easy way to download the associated files for users to listen to at their leisure. By using a subscription model the user can regularly check for new content to download to a computer and subsequently upload on to an iPod.
Peter Scott's participation in Open Sensemaking Communities
Open Sensemaking Communities
Open Sensemaking Communities
2006-04-01
Helping e-learners construct interpretations of open content courseware
The Open Content movement is concerned with enabling students and educators to access material, in order to then learn from it, and reuse it either in one?s studies or one's own courses. The core efforts to date has focused on enabling access, e.g. building the organizational/political will to release and license content, and in developing open infrastructures for educators to then publish and reassemble it. The key challenge in the next phase of the open content movement is to improve the support for prospective students to engage with and learn from the material, and with each other though peer learning support, in the absence of formally imposed study timetables and assessment deadlines. KMi is now engaged in developing the next generation of tools for e-learning and collaborative sensemaking for open content learning support.
Peter Scott's participation in iTunes U
iTunes U
iTunes U
2010-08-01
2012-07-31
iTunes University and Podcasting from KMi
Since late 2005 North American Universities have been using Apple's iTunes as a powerful platform to reach their students and the wider world. On June 3, 2008, Apple finally invited some other countries into this exciting channel. The 3 European Universities to launch at that time were The Open University, University College London (from the UK) and Trinity, Dublin (Ireland). Each of us launched with a pretty decent selection of materials and podcasts.
KMi executed the launch, working closely with the Open University Learning and Teaching Solutions division. The team in LTS will take ahead the service and make it work effectively throughout the University work flows. KMi will take this work forward with an innovative range of new features and some exciting new support services for podcasting; and using the special features of this channel in some new ways...
Peter Scott's participation in Mobile Applications
Mobile Applications
Mobile Applications
Applications to explore the use of mobile devices in a learning environment
The Knowledge Media Institute are currently developing demonstration / prototype mobile applications to explore the use of mobile devices in the learning environment.
In the first instance these applications will be developed for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch but the aim is to port them to other mobile platforms such as Microsoft Windows Mobile and Android based devices. It is also possible that Symbian devices may also be included.
Peter Scott's participation in ROLE
ROLE
ROLE
2009-02-01
2013-01-31
Responsive Open Learning Environments
The cross-disciplinary innovations of the ROLE project will deliver and test prototypes of high responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation.
The work of ROLE will advances the state-of-the-art in human resource management; self-regulated and social learning; psycho-pedagogical theories of adaptive education and educational psychology; service composition and orchestration; and the use of ICT in lifelong learning.
ROLE offers adaptivity and personalization in terms of content and navigation and the entire learning environment and its functionalities. This approach permits individualization of the components, tools, and functionalities of a learning environment, and their adjustment or replacement by existing web-based software tools. Learning environment elements can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components and functionalities, which can be adapted by lone learners or collaborating learners to meet their own needs and to enhance the effectiveness of their learning. This empowers each user to generate new tools and functions according to their needs, and can help them to establish a livelier and personally more meaningful learning context and learning experience.
Peter Scott's participation in LTfLL
LTfLL
LTfLL
2009-06-01
2011-02-28
Language Technology for Lifelong Learning
LTfLL aims at creating the next-generation support and advisory services that enhance individual and collaborative competence building and knowledge creation in educational and organisational settings. The project therefore combines natural language processing technologies with cognitive models in these services.
Current Position of the Learner
Appreciation of learner requirements leading to better advice on study plans and selection of study resources. Services will offer semi-automatic analysis and comparison of learner portfolios to the domain knowledge and continuous modelling and measurement of conceptual development.
Support & Feedback
Progress monitoring based on learning activities rather than on formal assessments to advice appropriate activities for further competence building. Services are developed based on analysis of the interactions of students -- using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) -- and textual output of students -- with the help of Latent Semantic Analysis and other NLP techniques.
Social & Informal Learning
A knowledge sharing infrastructure is construed that allows for the co-construction of knowledge in social and informal learning. It facilitates comparing and sharing private knowledge to give rise to new common knowledge. Ontologies for formal domain representation are combined with social tagging.
Peter Scott's participation in SocialLearn
SocialLearn
SocialLearn
Learning on the open, social web...
SocialLearn is a cross-University project to combine the best of social web technologies with those of online social learning. SocialLearn is a vehicle to think about learning in the Web 2.0+ context. Who is learning, how are they are they learning, what and when are they learning? SocialLearn integrates concepts and technologies from KMi's social/semantic/multimedia technologies research.
Peter Scott's participation in iCoper
iCoper
iCoper
2008-09-01
2011-02-28
Adopting Standards for European Educational Content
This work is part of the <a href='http://icoper.org/' target='_blank' class='project'>http://icoper.org/</a> project. iCoper is an eContentPlus action of the EU focused around standards for interoperability for sharing learning materials.
There are many standards in the field of learning: around objects, around syndication and search, and even to help define the key features of portfolios and assessment. iCoper is building a reference model to help to bring these standards together and capture the best practice of our diverse community in the use of these standards - to make better learning! Sadly, there are few standards which help learning institutions (and now learners themselves, perhaps) to create content that is then more easily reused by others, or in different learning context. The work discussed here is focused on capturing the best practices of our community to support Content Development and Reuse (CDfR).
Peter Scott's participation in OpenScout
OpenScout
OpenScout
2009-09-01
2012-08-31
Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training
OpenScout stands for "Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training" and is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus Programme. The project started in September 2009 and has a duration of three years.
OpenScout aims at providing an education service in the internet that enables users to easily find, access, use and exchange open content for management education and training.
The management education market is largely diversified, training topics range from general management and leadership to very specific issues like managing risks in banking industry. Despite the resulting growing need for management education and content the potential of already existing open learning materials is hardly exploited, neither in the business sector nor in SMEs where the need for lifelong learning is even greater.
To reduce the usage barriers OpenScout plans to offer easy-to-use skill-based federated search and retrieval web services, provide an openly accessible tool library for improvement and re-publishing of open contents and establish an open user community that opens up their content and adopts OpenScout web services in real contexts of use.
OpenScout will be used by learners directly but also by training and education institutions that search for learning content to be integrated into their learning offerings.
Peter Scott's participation in STELLARNET
STELLARNET
STELLARNET
2009-02-01
2012-05-31
The open network of excellence in technology-enhanced learning.
STELLARNET represents the effort of the leading institutions and projects in European Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify our diverse community.
This Network of Excellence is motivated by the need for European research on TEL to build upon, synergize and extend the valuable work we have started by significantly building capacity in TEL research within Europe, which is required to allow the European Union to achieve its goals via the Bologna Agreement and the execution of the Lisbon Agenda. The European TEL agenda has been set for the last 4 years by the Kaleidoscope network � with a huge strength in pedagogy and scientific excellence, and the Prolearn network � with a complimentary strength in technical and professional excellence. Integrating this excellence and moving on to the higher strategic formation of policy based in leading research is the key challenge for the next stage.
STELLARNET will move beyond the earlier networks by setting a new and critical foresight agenda for Technology Enhanced Learning. The Network will be executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels.
STELLARNET's instruments will act upon the backbone of an interlocking set of 3 Grand Research Challenge actions, themed as Connecting People, Orchestration and Context.
Peter Scott's participation in Hallé KTP
Hallé KTP
Hallé KTP
2009-05-01
2011-10-30
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between the Hallé Concerts Society and KMi
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between the Hallé Concerts Society and KMi and provides an opportunity for KMi to use and furtheer develop some of its key technologies in a real commercial setting, whilst proving the the Hallé Concerts Society with expertise in the field of New Media Technologies
For more information on KTPs, see www.ktponline.org.uk
Peter Scott's participation in TELMAP
TELMAP
TELMAP
2010-10-01
2013-03-31
Future gazing TEL: the roadmap for the unknown Learning landscape
TEL-Map is a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under the Technology-Enhanced Learning programme. It focuses on exploratory / roadmapping activities for fundamentally new forms of learning to support the adoption of those new forms, via awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in TEL and socio-economic evaluations in education.
Peter Scott's participation in WESPOT
WESPOT
WESPOT
2012-10-01
2015-09-30
Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning
The weSPOT project, supported by the European Commission, aims to propagate scientific inquiry as the approach for science learning and teaching in combination with today's curricula and teaching practices.
weSPOT will create a Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies that supports users (from 12 to 25) to develop their inquiry based learning skills by means of:
(i) a European reference model for inquiry skills and inquiry workflows,
(ii) a diagnostic instrument for measuring inquiry skills,
(iii) smart support tools for orchestrating inquiry workflows including mobile apps, learning analytics support, and social collaboration on scientific inquiry,
(iv) social media integration and viral marketing of scientific inquiry linked to school legacy systems and an open badge system.
In inquiry-based learning co-learners take the role of explorers and scientists and are motivated by their personal curiosity, guided by self-reflection, and develop knowledge personal and collaborative sense-making and reasoning.
weSPOT will work on a meta-inquiry level in that it will:
1. define a reference model for inquiry-based learning skills,
2. create a diagnostic instrument for measuring inquiry skills, and
3. implement a working environment that allows the easy linking of inquiry activities with school curricula and legacy systems.
Peter Scott's participation in TELL-ME
TELL-ME
TELL-ME
2012-11-01
2015-10-31
Technology Enhanced Learning Livinglab for Manufacturing Environments
TELL-ME reinvents learning technology for human-centred and service-oriented manufacturing workplaces in small and medium enterprises.
Innovation and technological advances in the manufacturing sector are often led by large, multinational companies � leaving small and medium enterprises (SMEs) struggling to keep pace.
At the same time, more people in manufacturing work in SMEs (about 2/3) than in large enterprises (about 1/3), thus posing a barrier to smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth.
Recognising the EU 2020 strategy, TELL-ME creates more effective means for up- and re-skilling of employees to Europe, targeting less technologically-advanced SMEs in the human-centred, service-oriented manufacturing sector.
With the manufacturing sector accounting for more than 10% of the overall workforce, TELL-ME conducts research to the benefit of a large number of European citizens.
TELL-ME will use novel knowledge media on all levels, including augmented reality glasses for experience capturing, a social business learning platform for collaborating, and business learning analytics for assessing.
TELL-ME is a consortium with ten industrial and four academic partner institutions in eight EU countries.